Audience of One is the documentary as hands-off science project.
Sangre de Mi Sangre unfortunately lives down to the dubious nature.
The fingerprints of multiple hyphenate auteur Ying Liang are all over his video feature The Other Half, and he wants us to know it.
Abbas Kiarostami is exhausted, and understandably so.
Taste of Cherry might be Kiarostami’s most difficult film, what with its generally languorous rhythms and its nonchalant inquiry into suicide.
Entering the media installation portion of the retrospective is akin, one suspects, to entering the Iranian master’s head.
Finally, a Bond adventure one can enjoy without apology.
With The Wayward Cloud, Tsai Ming-liang trades contemplative philosophizing for balls-out rhetorical flourishes.
Ascend to the beauties of Mikio Naruse.
No surprise to read that Eric Rohmer was an early patron of the French filmmaker Jean-Claude Brisseau.
This year’s “Film Comment Selects” program collects 18 features that span the full spectrum of the cine-world stage.
We just came through a pretty tumultuous year for movies, and for the media and the entertainment industry in general.
The boredom-laced interlude with a Russian doll is itself an all-too-apt metaphor for the film.
Love on the Ground is the kind of French-farcical roundelay that Gallic cinema is frequently accused of producing en masse.
Jacques Rivette’s Merry-Go-Round is explicitly about schisms and parallel realities.
Secret défense feels in many ways like a culmination—Rivette’s ideologies and obsessions distilled to a perfect essence.
One of the finest Cinemascope films of recent years is presented in a mostly excellent anamorphic transfer.
MOMI’s Jacques Rivette retrospective enters its sixth week with four screenings.
Mismatched plots, mixed motivations, dogs and cats living together…mass hysteria!
Rivette’s Le Pont du Nord remains a stimulating document of a city in flux.