Alps finds Yorgos Lanthimos building on Dogtooth’s surreally terse style and notions of communication and identity.
The festival is a place for encountering first-time visions as well as catching up with established artists.
Unlike most recent omnibus features, the three short films comprising The Fourth Dimension riff not on a specific location, but on a set of creative rules.
The Long Day Closes is both less dark and more radical than Terence Davies’s prior Distant Voices, Still Lives.
The film takes a complex, controversial political figure and purées him into a generalized, insipidly inspirational character.
Suzuki’s stark, spastically existential crime-flick abstraction unfurls like the director’s cracked self-portrait.
Even if the film amounts to a gorgeous but lethargic emo ballad, there’s no denying the stately lyricism of its melancholy.
A solid pair of neo-noir obscurities personifies the anxious tenor of the 1970s while shedding intriguing light on the careers of their respective directors.
Despite flashes of punk rawness, Gibson’s winter-of-discontent musical drama can barely tap the glass, let alone break it.
The film is a frigid and oddly static procession of Hitchcockian shout-outs.
Mise-en-scène choices, improvised pietàs, and the leading lady’s driving arrangements were some of the topics of our discussion.
The film locates the dark enchantment in characters discovering themselves during their most despairing moments.
Wuthering Heights is designed to hack away at the ornamental crust created by years of genteel literary adaptations.
Sleeping Beauty is enervated, ludicrous, and the sort of unique debut that makes one impatient to see what comes next.
Almayer’s Folly is a work of engulfing jungles and rivers, vehement and incantatory speeches, and piercing female gazes in front of and behind the camera.
Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne are modern cinema’s poets laureate of working-class marginalization and spiritual crises.
A Dangerous Method unsettles with its lucid visions of release and repression.
Restless mostly suggests a fuzzy remake of Four Nights of a Dreamer starring the cast of Twilight.
Jazzy blasts and meticulous traps come together in this Eclipse set for one of Nikkatsu's versatile, unheralded provocateurs.
Hellman has led a long cinematic career that could mirror the winding journeys of the characters in his films.