A united community is a powerful force that can be used for healing or destruction.
The festival’s 60th edition is, among other things, a celebration of cinema’s limitless capacity for renewal.
The festival provides a matchless opportunity to take the pulse of Poland’s present-day culture.
There’s no surprise to recognize that FIDMarseille’s most obvious qualities are its lack of pretense and penchant for experimentation.
Here’s hoping that TCMFF marches forward and continues to remind us of every reason why the movies are so essential.
The slipperiness of that word, “reel,” points to cinema’s complicated relationship to the reality of what it shows the audience.
This year’s Cannes lineup is, for now, a Lynch-less one, but it’s nonetheless stacked with new works by other established auteurs.
Feelings are unutterable and intimacy unbearable in the Japan depicted in Kudo Riho’s Let Me Hear It Barefoot.
Death and childhood haunt Pénélope My Love and Malintzin 17.
As we re-enter the circuit of in-person film festivals, the peculiarities of the physical world feel just as alluring as the movies themselves.
The ’80s haunted this year’s Polish Film Festival, which is billed by its organizers as one of the oldest film events in Europe.
If ever the world needed to be reminded of cinema’s world-making possibilities, it’s now.
Today, the festival revealed the features and shorts that will screen in one of its most prestigious sidebars.
This year’s Cannes lineup includes the latest from several big-name auteurs, and more than a few past Palme d’Or winners.
Both films center around women who are crippled by domesticity.
Maria Schrader has a solution for the rom-com’s revitalization: embrace its constructs.
Adolescence is a fertile metaphor for the strangeness and insecurity inherent in the transition from one world to another.