Michael Winterbottom’s documentary is more about hyping Russell Brand as a constituent for the people than locating the means for sustained economic transformation.
While female filmmakers might be in short supply at the festival, female subjects initially seem common.
The filmmaker discusses the role of scatology in the Arabian Nights trilogy and his frustrations with political passivity.
A brain-dead slog whose bankrupt aesthetics ironically soil the very legacy it purports to aggrandize.
The film is less a revisionist take on the circumstances of John Gotti’s 1992 indictment than a tedious love child of Bonnie and Clyde and Goodfellas.
It refuses to allow for deeper articulations of racism beyond, well, visible and verbal displays of racism.
The flawed transfer on Criterion’s Blu-ray release of Ikiru, but at least the disc arrives with an informative slew of extras.
Pennebaker discusses Dylan as a “latter-day Bryon” and the Don’t Look Back’s enduring legacy.
Mekas has remained truly underground in the home-video world—until now.
As to whether 3D is a marker of quality or cultural ruin is growing increasingly beside the point.
A shotgun is not just a shotgun in Brooks’s In Cold Blood, one of Criterion’s finest Blu-ray packagings for a single film in the past half decade.
Becker’s enticing noir pastiche is now available in a serviceable Blu-ray package from Bayview Entertainment.
Director Mor Loushy creates an alternative historiography that’s more meant to be felt than learned.
According to the film, individual misdeeds aren’t the final enemy, but the byproduct of an unregulated regime.
The film is unwaveringly attentive to problematizing the dividing line between predator and prey.
As a woman, Nancy Meyers is more vulnerable to bad reviews and poor box office than Michael Bay.
Gabriel Clarke, John McKenna forsake all ambiguity regarding McQueen’s psychology by stubbornly defining him as a determined, charismatic womanizer.
With the invocation of national allegiance as an inherent contradiction, Nguyễn Thị Thấm’s documentary blooms its larger, allegorical inklings.
Arrow Video’s top-shelf Blu-ray presentation of this haunting, if tasteless, curio is among the year’s most complete home-video packages.
We spoke with the actor about Out 1, his political investments during May ’68, and how France’s current government is a “sad” state of affairs.