There's a joke told about a third of the way through Mac Cappuccino's film Malaisia. It's bad. Jay Schmidt is the one laying out the excessive amount of exposit...
There was a time when it seemed music might have the power to change the world—or at the very least, move the needle. The knee-jerk reaction to such a statement...
Francis Ford Coppola had already cemented his Hollywood legacy after a string of critical and commercial successes in the 1970s, but discussion of his filmograp...
For every viewer there are forms of storytelling, visual expression that are more familiar than others. The references, codes, cinematic language of foreign fil...
It’s hard to think of anything that’s as inherently ridiculous and quite literally vital as condoms. Nothing more than a little piece of latex, but what moral, ...
Having too many ideas for your film can be a curse. It’s understandably tempting, especially for first-time filmmakers, to show people all you’ve got in one go....
Queer cinema has made great strides in recent years, allowing every letter on the LGBT-banner to be prominently represented at major film festivals worldwide. I...
There are films you feel glad to have seen for educational reasons, for being informed about aspects of our messed-up world that have so far escaped your attent...
We sat down with Bonello at the 57th New York Film Festival to discuss meeting real-life zombies, the great lengths he went to respect the Haitian tradition of voodoo while telling a taboo story, using Clairvius Narcisse’s zombification to contextualize contemporary cultural tensions, and recruiting historian Patrick Boucheron to explain how liberalism obscures liberty....
