There’s something undeniably special about viewing silent films at the Castro.
Any potential flights of invention or creativity are subordinate to the plain and emphatic delivery of life lessons.
While featuring much screaming, accusations, collision of agendas, and the exhuming of dirty secrets, the film remains emotionally tone deaf.
The Grandmaster is an expectedly exquisite work which reveals its author’s fingerprints in every frame, motion, and emotion.
The global economic maelstrom found a way to creep its way into the 47th edition of the festival—but only for a moment.
Festivals are strange and wonderful environments.
The weather has gotten better in Karlovy Vary. Sort of.
It’s silly to complain about anything when spending time in the company of Pedro Almodóvar, Jerzy Skolimowski, and Wim Wenders.
Polytechniques hemorrhaging atmosphere of dread and oncoming violence creates a space of inescapable soul-sick horror.
Madly in Love is a film with the song and dance touch of Bollywood but set in Switzerland.
His is a cinema populated with men who wince as they unload the barrels of their mouths.
The dissolution of Guy and Genevieve’s romance is a perfect parallel to the way we experience cinema.
Love, too, is one of the greatest gambles a human being can make.
Jacques Demy is a raconteur of fairy tales who keenly understands the heart’s follies.
Andrea Arnold’s second feature is the heir to a long-standing British tradition of kitchen-sink realism
Chabrol, Depardieu, murder, family quarreling—all seemingly wonderful elements that, when put together, should be engaging and fascinating.
Ti West’s film is so firmly rooted in suspense that even Hitchcock would be alternately proud and jealous.
I spent the first two weekends in October sitting in the Bing Theater for the Alain Resnais retrospective.
For a film that explores the realms of the avant-garde, or anti-art, (Untitled) is drudgingly conventional in narrative and structure.
Nicolas Winding Refn’s washed-out tableaux are a noteworthy example of form meeting function.