Anyone who's played organized sports is familiar with their clichés. Whether "fighting in the trenches" as though a game is akin to war or loyalty and love tra...
Every one of our conversations with Arnaud Desplechin eventually leads to Philip Roth. As far back as 2015 he told me of ambitions to adapt the author's 1990 n...
The success of Paweł Pawlikowski’s Ida and Cold War has revealed, among arthouse audiences, a heretofore unimagined ravenous hunger for Eastern Bloc period dra...
One of the more bizarre international scandals of recent years is the February 2017 assassination of Kim Jong-Nam, the exiled former heir to late North Korean ...
The original Spanish-language title of Identifying Features is Sin Señas Particulares, or “No Particular Signs”—a reference to the individuating marks found, o...
After carving out an impressive, varied career in front of the camera (as well as a wealth of other artistic endeavors), Viggo Mortensen recently embarked on h...
Fifteen years ago, Sienna Miller was that model-turned-actress who was dating Jude Law. Heavy tabloid attention gave way to a years-long hiatus from the screen...
One of the early must-see films of 2021 is The Reason I Jump, which picked up an Audience Award at Sundance Film Festival earlier this year and has gone on to ...
With early rollouts of vaccines offering a sliver of silver lining to this most tumultuous of years, film festivals around the world already begin anticipating...
Welcome, one and all, to the latest episode of The Film Stage Show! Today, Brian Roan, Michael Snydel, and Bill Graham are joined by Anna Swanson to discuss Da...