There’s an enigmatic quality to the role of Nolan in the current filmmaking landscape.
The Atlanta-born songstress managed to offer an interminably absorbing show with a performance that belonged on a far bigger stage.
Is Darren Aronofsky’s relative nebulousness a reflection of the quality of his films?
By the end of his career, Yasujirô Ozu had developed a singular style and a set of themes and stories that were wholly his own.
For the next two weeks BAMcinématek will be showing the World Cinema Foundation’s restorations.
Conner was a “fuck this” artist, not just for savage cultural criticism lightly guised as celebration.
One of the final mysteries Werner Herzog evokes is what, if anything, albino alligators, who populate a neighboring arboretum, dream of.
Maybe that phenomenon is what inspires filmmakers to make concert documentaries in the first place: the challenge of simulating the feeling of being there.
Peter Scarlet is the Executive Director of the Abu Dhabi Film Festival.
Most war films depend on the physical movement of bodies, bullets, and explosions to expose the horrors of combat. Not these.
Stars drop in and out with great frequency at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival.
When they write a history of Twitter, hopefully a footnote will be spared for Alejandro Adams.
Formally, Kelly Reichardt’s fourth feature is some kind of masterpiece.
Like their self-titled debut, the xx’s live show is a case study in straddling a fine line.
Another baroque example of the tragic fatalism inherent in heist films comes fromCriss Cross, later remade by Stephen Soderbergh as The Underneath.
When Alex Timbers was 12 years old, he and an elementary school buddy had their own public access cable show in Manhattan.
Beefing about snubs has become an annual sport, but committee deserves credit for filling the slate with a range of intriguing, less buzzed about films.
Busch discusses playing a mother superior in his new play, now at the Soho Playhouse.
More than three decades after his death, the legacy of William Castle still burns as brightly as a Fourth of July fireworks display.
Dermansky brings a refreshing mix of honest fandom and driving curiosity to her second novel.
Cast members O’Dowd, Parkinson, and Berry took time from rehearsal last spring to chat with Slant about making The IT Crowd.