On fire: at this year’s edition of the festival devoted to rediscoveries and restorations, distinctions between high and low ...

New scene: the incarcerated journalist shares her painstaking journey to teach herself screenwriting in prison ...

A man of a certain age is dying. The problem is his heart. Not only does it no longer pump as it should, but it has proven itself a failure in matters of love. Because the man still hungers for love, ...

I don’t believe in the idea of guilty pleasures because I don’t think you should feel guilty about liking anything. (My boyfriend on the other hand says he definitely feels guilty about loving B.A.P.S ...

(Yojiro Takita, Japan, 2008)The members of the Academy who gave Departures its Oscar must be feeling their mortality. The movie tells the story of a second-rate cellist who loses his job when an ...

(Darren Aronofsky, U.S., 2010)Early in Black Swan, artistic director Thomas Leroy concludes his personal synopsis of Swan Lake with the declaration that only in death does its troubled heroine find ...

Is Anna Wintour a malicious, vindictive, power-crazed dragon lady or merely, as one of her supporters claims, just really, really busy? Whatever the case, the imposing editor of Vogue is one of the ...

(Catherine Corsini, France/Belgium, 2015)By Yonca Talu in the July-August 2016 Issue F ramed against the backdrop of the 1970s feminist movement in France, Summertime explores the age-old conflict ...

By Grady Hendrix in the March-April 2020 Issue P erpetually out of step, Shinya Tsukamoto goes where his gut leads him, handcrafting freaked-out sci-fi nightmares from 8mm, 16mm, 35mm, digital video, ...

(Bruce McDonald, Canada, 2008)Early on a frigid Valentine’s morning in some desolate village within the Ontario hinterland, talk radio DJ Grant Mazzy (Stephen McHattie) is assailed by an unidentified ...

The lives of the Brontës were marked by ambition, transgression, and tragedy, but André Téchiné’s 1979 The Brontë Sisters is all the more haunting for being stylized and elliptical. The script by ...

The Late Mathias Pascal The french studio Films Albatros was formed by Russian immigrants after the 1917 Revolution. Studio head Alexander Kamenka championed Jacques Feyder in particular, and this ...