It’s always interesting, at the beginning of any Nadav Lapid film, to note the myriad Israeli institutions that have backed the project. Since Emile’s Girlfrie...
Few films in Cannes, competition or otherwise, have us excited like Arnaud Desplechin's Deception, the director's adaptation of Philip Roth's erotic, dialogue-...
Scales is the latest in a movement of feminist cinema coming from Saudi Arabia, in the wake of great work done by Haifaa Al-Mansour (whose excellent The Perfec...
Annette has been birthed and, surprise of surprises, initial reaction to a Leos Carax-directed, Sparks-penned musical proves divisive. In any case, we (the bes...
Was Robert Downey Sr. the world's greatest director? A bold claim for anybody, a very bold claim when the director in question hadn't produced anything for dec...
Brief but stirring, vague if not for lack of worthwhile images, here's the first teaser for Ahed's Knee, the new film from Synonyms director Nadav Lapid. Littl...
In Annette, a provocative comedian (Adam Driver) and renowned opera singer (Marion Cotillard) fall in love and have a gifted child. Written and composed by Ron...
Following his live-action/animation hybrid The Congress in 2013, Waltz with Bashir director Ari Folman is finally returning this year with his long-awaited pro...
The Stars at Noon, Claire Denis' long-awaited Denis Johnson adaptation, will sadly not be a High Life reunion. While on the press tour for her ambitious sci-fi...
If, initially, I am not quite sure what to do with the knowledge that Val Kilmer has "amassed thousands of hours of footage" shot over 40 years, my being nonpl...