Near the beginning of Evolution, there’s a shot that hangs underwater, showing a seemingly harmonious aquatic eco-system that's glimpsed just long enough to cre...
A post-9/11 world rife with domestic terrorism is one our youth should be allowed to avoid. Parents seek an escape as well, though, something that risks leaving...
The town of Bobbio, in central Italy, often recurs in Marco Bellocchio’s history, in the same way that the 17th-century episode of the ‘nun of Monza’ (whose aff...
As the Venice Film Festival enters its final phase, the competition throws up perhaps its most unknown quantity as celebrated New York City polymath Laurie Ande...
Such is my fondness for 2006’s A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints that even ten years later I’m always on the hunt for new films from director Dito Montiel. The...
It looks like we'll have to amend our most-anticipated festival premieres of the fall, as one of them has been removed from all line-ups. Directed by the la...
A chance oddity has occurred in the great European festivals this year. With no clear discernable connection between them, biopics of arguably the three most fa...
“Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover” is a proverb whose simple existence proves the fact impressionable souls will do so without fail. This monthly column focuses on the film industry’s willingness to capitalize on this truth, releasing one-sheets to serve as not representations of what audiences are to expect, but as propaganda to fill seats. Oftentimes they fail miserably....
Lily Tomlin has had more than just one “role of a lifetime” in her filmography, but in writer/director Paul Weitz’s Grandma she’s given the type of project that...
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