This year brought 18 features and seven shorts, all presented with live musical accompaniment.
The relative quality of generational family abuse, a prominent motif in the play, comes through loud and clear.
Vallée attempts a gritty approach to the inspired-by-true-events, issue-driven biopic formula.
It fails to ask compelling questions that would merit the relevance of a fictional film about the subject in 2013.
Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity harkens back to a time in the history of cinema when a film was an “event.”
It’s adept at showing how the slavers’ hateful descriptions of their victims are more than simply demeaning.
Jason Reitman’s film excels in giving the delicate family balance a kind of rewarding poignancy.
The Police Officer’s Wife had easily the most walkouts of any film I saw at the festival.
The bars in both Closed Curtain and Crimson Gold allude to the cognitive imprisonment of its characters.
Călin Peter Netzer’s Child’s Pose, more than the complicated milieu it depicts, is at odds with itself.
The Telluride Film Festival is the home away from home for cinephiles the world over.
Mahatma Gandhi is—and always has been—many things to many people, but a sex symbol?
For the 11 days over which the 66th Locarno Film Festival took place, the Swiss city was a colony of leopards.
Rewind This!, a nostalgia trip through the heyday of VHS, fondly examines the importance of fandom in the 1980s and beyond.
Exhibition is a pained and probing study of a couple’s declining marriage.
Highlights of this year’s FIDMarseille included works that traveled beyond the European continent in search of lost (and unknown) connections.
The U.S.-made movies in the festival, perhaps unsurprisingly, reflect the content and range of styles typical of contemporary small-budget American filmmaking.
Piñeiro’s movies function like cinematic tapestries: sudden character changes are treated with brisk disregard, as characters and threads pile up; lines from literary works, read out loud, punctuate the action.
The Grandmaster is an expectedly exquisite work which reveals its author’s fingerprints in every frame, motion, and emotion.
Los Angeles Film Festival 2013: The Expedition to the End of the World, Europa Report, & In a World…
Much of The Expedition to the End of the World derives its power from the way it seems to transcend time.
Prolific Hong Kong action auteur Johnnie To performs a border crossing with Drug War.