These works evidence a filmmaker with an appropriationist’s eye who nevertheless has larger sociological concerns on his mind.
At its best, with its quiet, ominous pace in the early going and its economical distribution of information throughout, the film is reminiscent of Todd Haynes’s Safe.
Téchiné’s reputation for unruly, melodramatic narratives is set in stark relief by 1979s The Bronte Sisters
The film reconciled most of the major aesthetic advancements made by Mizoguchi up to this point in his career.
An intimate epic, a tangible hallucination, a visceral symphony, and a beautiful display of brutality.
Devoid of much of the fantasia of Miyazaki’s more outwardly visionary work, it still endures as his most beloved film.
These characters, as unique as they are, are nevertheless of a fundamental relation to that of all Jarmusch creations.
James Gray has been working toward The Immigrant for his entire career.
The men in Alexander Payne’s movies are on a constant journey.
Kristin Scott Thomas’s sadistic mother figure is indicative of the film’s problematic construction.
Both of these films make an asset out of their respective pillaging of genre signifiers.
The film has enough latent charm and unique personality to standout amid a career of wild diversions.
If Kore-eda is tilling familiar soil here, he continues to do so at the height of his powers.
Farhadi utilizes living quarters as an area of adversity rather than comfort.
From the opening moments of Jia’s film, something strange is afoot.
Coppola’s fascination with the young and over-privileged reaches a logical plateau with The Bling Ring.
One of the best and most under-seen American indies of the last few years arrives in an impressive package from Music Box Films.
These early films point toward the nascent Japanese New Wave which would stake an even more unruly stance at the dawn of the ’60s.
One of Hong’s most effortless triumphs, this comedy nonchalantly dispenses hard truths, uncomfortable revelations, and spontaneous laughs.
As in much of Luis Buñuel’s preceding work, the film’s ingredients don’t immediately appear compatible.