Balls of Fire. This year’s edition of the Italian festival devoted to restored and rediscovered films brought the hea ...
Night Across the Street, the final film from Chilean master Raul Ruiz, has all the common, often contradictory, characteristics of late cinematic style: an abundance of metaphors for moviegoing and ...
The first time I saw The Present, the rueful, digressive video essay Robert Frank produced when there were—in his words—“another 1,347 days until the year 2000,” it was during an eccentric program at ...
Writer-director Trey Edward Shults’s feature debut unfolds almost entirely within and around a spacious suburban Montgomery, Texas home, a single location that Shults renders a maze of chambers where ...
Every year, we also seek to recognize those films that did not come out in theaters in the U.S. for a full theatrical run. All of the below films had no announced U.S. distribution at press time, but ...
In any year other than 2015, I’d have been, say, 75 percent in agreement with the decision to award the Cannes Palme d’Or to Jacques Audiard’s Dheepan. If the extraordinary Son of Saul hadn’t been in ...