In Charlie McDowell’s last feature, Windfall, the ambitious (though largely unsuccessful) idea was to put the audience in a stressful situation (à la Hitchcock...
On September 22, 1975, Sara Jane Moore, a 45-year-old single mom, drove into downtown San Francisco, pushed her way to the front of a crowded barricade, reache...
“The world you’re about to see no longer exists. None of us knew what was about to happen.”
Writer-director Julia Loktev––whose 13-year hiatus from fi...
With Afternoons of Solitude, Catalan filmmaker Albert Serra returns to Spain for his first documentary: a bloodsoaked portrait of celebrity bullfighter Andrés ...
Five years, the closest presidential election in Brazilian history, and one insurrection after her last examination of Brazil’s tumultuous socio-political sphe...
While there's a few more fall film festivals popping up in the next month, the major ones are behind us, which means we have a strong sense of the films to hav...
Timothy and Stephen Quay have developed an entirely unique style in the world of stop-motion animation: vigorously kinetic yet meticulously controlled; balleti...
Robert Minervini’s The Damned begins with two wolves tearing into a elk carcass, ripping off its fur and chewing its intestines. This isn’t a nature ...
It takes confidence to name your film––simply and so very unspecifically––Love. Michael Haneke could get away with it for giving us the classic that is Amour. ...
Romanian filmmaker Andrei Ujică’s TWST / Things We Said Today exists in the world of Beatlemania. It uses archival footage from the lead-up to the Beatles conc...