In The Disciple, a dedicated student of traditional North Indian music must grapple with the nagging feeling that he might not be quite good enough. The film i...
At one point in The Book of Vision, a young woman spins around in ecstasy, arms spread wide like a whirling dervish, before falling to the grass. The D.P. has ...
And like that, the Venice Film Festival, and maybe auteur cinema itself, is back. Recovering from a global pandemic that has altered life as we know it, and wi...
As
a subversive poem (according to the Chinese Nationalist Party that ruled Taiwan
under martial law during the period known as the White Terror from 1947 unti...
Every single one of us knows the terror of the unknown. Maybe it's as universal as our collective uncertainty about the future or as specific as your inability...
Like
the warring Japanese dojos depicted throughout the Karate Kid franchise, a growing disconnect exists between those who
wish to learn a fighting style as a...
We
all like to think we have control—kings of our proverbial castles. It's all a
ruse, though. We're actually slaves to a system that seems more and more likel...
The
darkened screen is almost pitch black before we can begin to discern shapes in
the distance. First it's wooden stakes in the ground at what looks to be a
t...
No
matter how staunch your atheism, there still exists a surefire way to get you
believing in God. It's not hearing His voice or seeing His work, though. Those...
Yes, that headline is correct. Orson Welles, who passed away 35 years ago this fall, has a newly completed film and it's coming to fall festivals. Hopper/ Well...
