Critic Pavel Sladký and programmer Irena Kovarova kick off our coverage from the Czech festival’s 60th edition ...

One of the saddest things I ever heard was from an acting teacher who reminded us that an acting career is often a tragic pursuit, moving in a circular progression. He described it using Kim Stanley ...

Originally titled Je suis une ville endormie (I Am a Sleeping City) in a previous incarnation, Nights with Theodore tells an entrancing tale of precarious romance between two young people in Paris’s ...

John Early’s remarkable directorial debut filters the ravages of an eating disorder through the funny-yet-sincere lens of ...

Once upon a time, all that serious film buffs knew about Italian cinema di genere was that it was a vast wasteland of “kiss kiss, bang bang” for undiscriminating viewers who, well into the Seventies, ...

Hatley's doc Ain’t in It for My Health lets us hang out with one talented, immensely likeable musician A few years before he succumbed to throat cancer in April of 2012, Levon Helm proudly exclaimed ...

What does it take to make a film maudit? Bong Joon Ho’s futuristic train story Snowpiercer pulls into U.S. theatrical stations this week preceded by several months of speculation on the likelihood ...

The family relationship between still photography and film is intimate and rivalrous; each, at times, seems to envy the qualities that are unique to the other. The Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami ...

In March 2020, a few days into New York’s COVID-19 lockdown, the visual artist Meriem Bennani posted a one and a half–minute clip to her Instagram captioned “2 Lizards Ep 1,” following it with seven ...

Roman Polanski’s life experience is predicated upon violence and absurdity. As an accused and convicted sex offender on the lam for nearly half a century, Polanski is toxic, although it has taken a ...

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