In a medium that devours beauty so easily, it’s talent that’s kept Ludivine Sagnier going.
Brand Upon the Brain! may or may not be your cup of tea, but the title is fitting: You’ll never forget it.
Victor Sjöström’s film is a tale of redemption played out against the vast expenses of nature.
A solid pair of Nordic journeys from one of cinema’s earliest builders.
Nature gives and nature takes away in Sjöström’s pantheistic classic.
The crosscutting between the sailor’s rowboat and the sailors at a British frigate in A Man There Was is far removed from the static setups of this early social drama.
The archaic English used in the title cards gives the picture a twee quality surely not intended in Ibsen’s original verses.
Were Rainer Werner Fassbinder still with us, would his twilight films be anything like Jacques Nolot’s?
Gender and genre are continuously bent in Serge Bozon’s uniquely weird and often starkly beautiful film experiment.
Breillat discusses literary adaptations, Argento’s formidable force, and French cinema’s shortage of matinee idols.
“Sweet love, renew thy force.” A commendable collection of a maverick’s final films.
It lovingly but unadventurously documents the life and art of the late British filmmaker Derek Jarman.
Chris & Don achieves the kind of rare grace that earns its subtitle as a true love story.
A shamefully bare-bones DVD for a shamefully neglected film.
Mother of Tears feels like Dario Argento’s Frenzy.
Mandingo is excessive, yet its excesses invariably reveal the caustic truths of social critique.
Alex Gibney is a lucid interviewer, getting barbed, surprising comments from Pat Buchanan, Jimmy Carter, George McGovern and Tom Wolfe.
The refusal to settle for Thompson’s druggy image that enlarges the film’s view of political disillusionment and connects it to our own era of fear and loathing.
Documentary focus is something that, like car keys, should not be given unquestioningly to high schoolers.
The film looks for emotional truth in high school cliques but instead ends one Ally Sheedy cameo short of Not Another Teen Movie, Part Deux.