The Fresh & Onlys’s new album, Play It Strange, provides a trip back to the early 1980s.
I bring my VIFF 2010 Dragons and Tigers coverage to a close with short takes on a few films.
The shadow of the 2008 Tangshan earthquake falls over Aftershock.
We come to you live this time not from the hollow hall of Grassroots Tavern but downtown Washington, DC.
What we talk about when we talk about Palestine often isn’t the landmass.
In a Better World exposes conflicts between cultures, countries, classes, and cohorts, and then promptly resolves them all.
For Abbas Kiarostami, anything that can be filmed is cinema, and even anything that can be photographed.
What does it take to become an executioner?
These are fundamentally directors’ films, but any discussion of them has to come back to the lead performances.
“Doncamatic” is a far cry from Plastic Beach’s grandiose kitchen-sink arrangements.
You can assess a film festival’s attitude on cinema by its repertory choices.
Think Global, Act Local knocks you dizzy.
We came for the fourth annual Abu Dhabi Film Festival, with over 170 films, and like the city, the lineup extends multiculturally
Addiction has played an important role through most of this season, most explicitly through Don’s struggles with alcoholism.
Joseph L. Mankiewicz introduced Margo Channing and her catty cohorts to the general public on October 13, 1950.
The dominant impression from this year’s Views from the Avant-Garde is that video artists are still figuring out what to do.
Aaron Cutler, Kenji Fujishima, and Elise Nakhnikian share their thoughts via email about this year’s festival.
Here is a breezy, old-school horror romp which gets a surprising amount of mileage from the usual genre standbys.
Véréna Paravel and J.P. Sniadecki’s Foreign Parts is a lovely and detailed visual elegy.