No one is ever alone in these films.
São Paulo International Film Festival 2011: Twenty Years Later, The Songs, & Sleepless Night Stories
by Aaron Cutler
Eduardo Coutinho’s Twenty Years Later is a film about a film. Sort of.
The past is being borne ceaselessly into the future in Luchino Visconti’s The Leopard.
How many readers have heard of Atlântida Cinematográfica?
Bruno Dumont’s Outside Satan isn’t alive to nature’s movement.
São Paulo International Film Festival 2011: The Death of Pinochet and Che, a New Man
by Aaron Cutler
Che, a New Man presents Che’s revolutions as an effort to love the rest of the world.
Hanezu might seem like a very different film from Jeanne, but the two films actually seem to come from similar impulses.
São Paulo International Film Festival 2011: Innocent Saturday, This Is Not a Film, & More
by Aaron Cutler
Aleksandr Mindadze’s Innocent Saturday ultimately adds up to a lot of nasty hysteria.
One country’s classics are another’s unknowns.
The latest film by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne left me speechless.