Vincent (Jean-Baptiste Durand): Martine’s hot-tempered son and a childhood friend of Jérémie’s. Walter (David Ayala): A ...

No fun: boredom predominates in Bong Joon Ho‘s Mickey 17, for the characters and the audience alike ...

Locally sourced: this year’s edition of the True/False Film Festival was a haven for principled cinephilia, with highlights ...

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This thorny question is really an ethical one. Who is film piracy harming? What is it destroying? And are those entities ones that you care about? Anyone could spend hours writing through the ...

There is no polite way to talk about sexual assault. On Becoming a Guinea Fowl is Rungano Nyoni’s follow-up to her debut black comedy, I Am Not a Witch (2017), about a Zambian girl named Shula who is ...

At that performance, director Robert Rossen was impressed, and later cast Hackman in a small role in LILITH with Warren Beatty. Three years later, Beatty remembered Hackman and cast him in BONNIE AND ...

For the New Woman, a new melodrama: Coming Home instead of Written on the Wind. David Ehrenstein examines this hip, old-fashioned genre. By David Ehrenstein in the September-October 1978 Issue The ...

An example: a brilliant Brazilian director and friend, João Jardim, made a beautiful documentary in 2001 called Window of the Soul that he brought to me for the mix. The first scene is a close-up of a ...

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