The festival’s greatest singularity is two-fold: its lack of pretense and judicious curatorial eye.
What is it about Bresson’s films that inspire such personal reactions and frank admissions from their admirers?
The White Hell of Pitz Palu sums up the romantic motifs of the genre invented by geologist-filmmaker Arnold Fanck.
Derailed has its suspenseful locomotive force disrupted by the clumsy plotting of Stuart Beattie’s script.
The Young One connects to us on a blood level but the incision it makes to reach us there is made with flabbergasting sensitivity.
At least Nadia Henkowa supplies some debauched campiness as a perverted vampyr lesbian priestess.
This is the type of well-intentioned home movie-ish endeavor that should only be viewed by its cast’s friends and family.
Israeli director Eran Riklis’s The Syrian Bride is a multifaceted story about a family’s wedding day preparations.
What is pleasant and slight in a short film becomes tedious and insipid when stretched to feature length.
Mizoguchi’s most widely heralded film is a mysterious, incantatory, and gorgeous parable.
The best moments of A Wife’s Heart involve things not said or seen.
Husband and Wife is one of director Mikio Naruse’s stranger films.
Once you realize F is for fake, the film itself reveals its own theoretical phoniness.
Throughout, Mikio Naruse shows his considerable skill at portraying household dynamics.
The film is an unfortunately strained effort, a sprawling, yet detached familial soap opera with an atypical country setting.
The film primarily forgoes gritty realism in favor of disingenuous, reductive fantasy in the star-glorifying vanity project mold.
Call it Through a Glass Fatuously.
Le Plaisir illustrates not merely Max Ophüls’s unparalleled sense of flow and texture, but also his proto-feminism.
The film is a loving portrait of a woman tragically caught between her wants and her responsibilities.
With Mrs. Henderson Presents, Stephen Frears offers Judi Dench a Being Julia to call her own.
The film tells a tale rife with implications about abortion and the consequences of modern medical technological progress.