NYFF Review: In Saint Omer, Alice Diop Examines Motherhood Through True Crime
In 2016, documentary filmmaker Alice Diop (We) felt compelled to attend the trial of Fabienne Kabou, a Senegalese mother accused of infanticide. Pregnant at th...
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15 Films to See in October
As we get deeper into the fall movie season, October—per usual—delivers some of the most essential films of the year. As much of the cinema-related excitement ...
Francis Ford Coppola Finalizes Cast of Megalopolis Ahead of Fall Production
It's finally happening. After developing the project for decades, Francis Ford Coppola is embarking on his epic drama Megalopolis this fall in Georgia. With a ...
Quentin Tarantino to Embark on Nationwide Book Tour for Cinema Speculation
We are now less than a month away from the latest project from Quentin Tarantino. Following up his expanded novelization of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, the ...
BIFF Review: Relative Finds a Reunited Family Searching for Catharsis
Life is about handling contradictions. And they all demand that we choose between compromising, conceding, or refusing to back down—whether it's opposite a fam...
Watch a Trailer for Lynch/Oz, Picked up by Janus Films
Hot off INLAND EMPIRE and Lost Highway restorations, Janus Films have continued their well-reasoned associations with David Lynch by acquiring Alexandre O. Phi...
Walter Hill on Dead for a Dollar, Physical Courage, Bullwhips, and Samuel Fuller
Once the biggest staple of Hollywood filmmaking, the Western has seen ebbs and flows through the history of cinema. In recent decades you’d be hard-pressed to ...
Hamburg Review: Fatih Akin’s Rheingold is an Entertaining if Unambitious Biopic
Turkish-German filmmaker Fatih Akin shot to international fame when his fourth feature Head-On won the Golden Bear at the 2004 Berlinale. Since then he’s compe...
Piggy Review: Payback is Complicated
There's a reason Carlota Pereda films Sara (Laura Galán) urinating through her clothes as an old friend (Irene Ferreiro's Claudia), who's drifted away towards ...
Albert Serra on Pacifiction, Rotten Decadence, and Breaking Free of Cinematic Clichés
In the middle of the 1970s, Sergei Parajanov was killing time. Imprisoned for what the authorities considered subversive activities (he was, amongst other thin...