What is the criteria for playing a character based on a factual person? How much artistic license is granted toward playing such a character in a fiction piece...
Now in its 12th edition, the Museum of the Moving Image’s First Look festival brings together a varied, eclectic lineup of cinema from all corners of...
In 1947, ten years before becoming an actor, Philippe Garrel’s father, Maurice, joined a company of puppeteers. That piece of history is like a well of inspira...
"To make a dream come true, the first requirement is a great capacity to dream; the second is persistence." This quote from civil rights activist Cesar Chavez ...
We all felt doomsday looming over us when COVID-19 spread rapidly in March 2020. HBO's all-archival documentary Time Bomb Y2K reminds us that, pre-pandemic, th...
Institutions dedicate extensive effort towards preparing for the future, often implementing protocols that help arrange for the inevitable, but what happens wh...
Thirty or so minutes into Angela Schanelec’s Music, a character makes a startling discovery. We’re inside a prison on the outskirts of an unidentified Greek to...
The singular styles of filmmakers in the Woche der Kritik (aka Berlin Critics' Week) often result in some of the year's most under-appreciated and formally exc...
For anyone keeping tabs on Bas Devos' career, it's notable that the drama of his latest film Here is set in motion by something as benign as a pot of soup. A c...
In Manodrome, cinema's enduring love for frustrated male loners is brought, kicking and screaming, into the cold light of the present day. Set in an unnamed, c...
