A film festival isn't just a way to see movies; it is, inevitably, a film festival. If you show a hundred or so features, even if they're picked at random, they will seem to form patterns, echo one
The Girl on the Train: a title like a "missed connections" posting. And the girl (Émilie Dequenne) really is lovely. She's got hair like Solveig Dommartin and a tiny tattoo on her left shoulder blade
The Keep plays as part of a 10-film Michael Mann retrospective at Chicago’s Doc Films on October 5th . *** A little fairy tale: wayward German soldiers occupy a cursed, abandoned Romanian fortress
You couldn't ask for anything better — wind, cold that makes you put your collar up and shove your hands in your pockets, a threat of rain. Terrible weather to be out in, but great weather to leave Michael
The story is not simple. Nor should it be. Mark Whitacre is Matt Damon with a bad hairpiece and a moustache. He's a charlatan, and, like any good charlatan, his act is based on a lot of truth-telling;
Small festivals are as full of surprises as big ones are full of letdowns. Impolex screened only once at the Chicago Underground Film Festivalthis year. It's a shoddy war picture or maybe the
Neveldine and Taylor don’t even have the good taste to seem reserved
"When I started making movies, there were 'movies' movies. Now 'movies' seems to be commercials, music videos, images off the Internet, there's all this imagery now." Leos Carax Every movie's
Spread is the story of a character who discovers that he has no depth. He might’ve been a person once, but then he became an actor and soon even the acting disappeared and all that remained was
Here's the difference between Tsui Hark, Ringo Lam and Johnnie To in three similar images: Tsui's is a cinema of objects; even bodies are things. Character exists in the dialogue, but on the screen
“But are we making things for the people of our epoch or repeating what has been done before? And finally, is the question itself important? We must ask ourselves that. The most important thing is always
There aren't many careers in the history of cinema quite like Roy Andersson's. Fresh out of film school, he had a major success with En kärlekshistoria (distributed as A Swedish Love Story in the US