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...
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...
In the middle of the 1970s, Sergei Parajanov was killing time. Imprisoned for what the authorities considered subversive activities (he was, amongst other thin...
The inescapable problem at the core of any omnibus or anthology film with multiple cooks in the kitchen is, by all design, things will be uneven. Yet V/H/S/99 ...
This Friday, the 60th New York Film Festival kicks off its anniversary edition, which, in a fest first, will feature screenings in all five boroughs. Ahead of ...
Peter Farrelly’s career is a fascinating example of a director whose brand of cinema became completely out of vogue after following a major American political ...
Walk a few clicks from Venice's Palazzo del Cinema and you'll find the Hotel Excelsior, as grand a work of Moorish revival architecture as you can likely find ...
Horror movies, like documentaries, have a knack for rolling the cameras whenever tragedy strikes. It didn’t come as much of a surprise when, mere months after ...
If your thirst for movies about the sexual awakening of French-speaking nuns wasn’t quenched by Paul Verhoeven’s Benedetta, take a look at Thunder, a gorgeousl...
It comes as no surprise to see a film like The Menu come out of a major studio like Searchlight Pictures. Populism has been around for a good while, but it’s h...
