The Machine impresses on the strength of both its ideas and its evocative style.
More than anything, Alberi is about the essential significance of nature.
The film is a serviceable, if unremarkable, tale of doomed, cross-class love and criminal activity.
Emma Roberts takes on the difficult task of convincing an audience to root for an obnoxious, self-obsessed aspiring poet.
Do you think film studios are playing it too safe? Are you changing the way you get your film fix?
This is a cinematically diverse event whose selections take in everything from high art to low trash.
Commissioned by the Brooklyn Academy of Music, it’s no surprise that BAM150 is both celebratory and promotional.
The film’s dramatization of Paul’s psychological “rubberneck” doesn’t just lie in literal details.
Namir Abdel Meseeh’s documentary is more about the “Me” rather than the “Virgin” or “the Copts” of its title.
One of Yossi’s virtues is Eytan Fox’s refusal to boil his main character down to an easy psychological framework.
The film makes a compelling case for Lepage’s vision and thrillingly chronicles the risks and excitement of a grand artistic endeavor.
The festival has blossomed into a great facilitator and promoter of international film and video culture.
Steve Coogan is brilliant…and has to still tell us so.
She was a pleasure to talk to about the process of finding the form for this unusual and moving film.
Navigating through the selections playing below Canal St.—or actually, this year, at the Clearview Chelsea—isn’t for the faint of heart.
Fatih Akın is a filmmaker of irrepressible energy.
The film’s quite right in showing the avant-garde as an enormously diverse movement.
Now then, listen. It’s a bit of a long one, so we even have a special intermission break for you.
It really skids off the rails at the midway mark, at which point it sharply shifts its attention to the links between falcon smuggling and Osama bin Laden.
The film doesn’t exactly unearth any new idea or notion about the Rwanda genocide, but it still serves as a well-researched, educational guide.