“I don’t want to be a symbol,” Kirill Serebrennikov told the New York Times earlier this year. Good luck with that. When Leto was selected for the Cannes Film ...
Sometimes it can be a little sad to watch a director blatantly make a bid for mainstream American acceptance (or rather future Marvel gig), and in the case of ...
NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings.
Roxy Cinema
A 35mm-heavy David Cronenberg retro is underway, with Dead Ringers playing F...
Before Martin McDonagh's In Bruges reunion The Banshees of Inisherin arrives this fall, the latest from his brother John Michael McDonagh, The Forgiven, opens ...
Alex Garland built his career on cerebral sci-fi. The novelist-turned-screenwriter-turned-director was responsible for two of the most acclaimed science fictio...
Most films ask nothing of you. You simply press play and watch the story unfold, gleaning context as the filmmaker colors in their narrative. But the occasiona...
An "us versus them" mentality inherently possesses the drama many documentarians seek to bottle when telling their stories. They mine their topic for the messa...
Keeping things in the family isn't always easy—just ask the Gallagher Brothers. Blood doesn't mean anything once fame and fortune enter the fray because outsid...
If you're looking to take a summer film analysis course for free, David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson have graciously offered that opportunity. The invaluable ...
In his previous film Martin Eden, and now with Scarlet, Pietro Marcello has found a novel way to depict artistic striving, closely tying it with the concept of...