Above: Destiny (2006). Born in 1964 in the provincial town of Isparta in southwest Turkey, Zeki Demirkubuz's life was indelibly marked by the 1980 military coup—a formative phase in the country's
Above: Claude and Nathan Miller's I'm Glad My Mother Is Alive. March at the Film Society of Lincoln Center has been something of an annual pilgrimage for Francophiles with the widely popular Rendez
While Chantal Akerman's early works—Le chambre, Hotel Monterey, News from Home, Je tu il elle, and Les rendez-vous d'Anna—have been chronologically grouped based on her sojourn in New York City during
Masaki Kobayashi's six-part magnum opus, The Human Condition, based on Junpei Gomikawa's postwar novel, bears the imprint of Kobayashi's tutelage under legendary filmmaker Keisuke Kinoshita at Shochiku
Composed of three chapters - Voices, Recollections, and Innocence - Zhao Dayong's Ghost Town is a textured, graceful, and indelible panorama of the "other" China, a sobering account of threadbare lives
While the other two films in Satyajit Ray's Calcutta trilogy - Pratidwandi (The Adversary) and Jana Aranya (The Middleman)—show the bleak prospects of college-educated young men struggling to carve out
Above: Madhabi Mukherjee in The Coward. On the surface, Satyajit Ray's diptych, Kapurush-o-Mahapurush (The Coward and The Holy Man) seems an unlikely pairing: one, a stranded screenwriter's encounter
Each of the Notebook's writers were given the opportunity to submit two lists of their ten favorite films of 2008. One is restricted to films receiving at least a week's theatrical run in the U.S., a
A historical fiction based on the Thiaroye transit camp massacre in 1944, Ousmane Sembène and Thierno Faty Sow's Camp de Thiaroye dismantles the myth of colonial assimilation to expose ingrained social
Filmed during the transition from silent to sound, Vampyr also represents a creative transition for Carl Theodor Dreyer. Having ended his association with Société Général de Films, the production company
In a pivotal encounter during Children of the Wind, the Aoyamas' rambunctious younger son, Sanpei (Jun Yokoyama, credited in the film as Bakudan kozo, or "explosive boy"), having been sent to live temporarily
As much an elegy to film as it is a dissolution of romantic myth, Jon Jost's Paris-set digital feature, Oui non hews closely to the spirit of Jean-Luc Godard's late period, mixed media essay films - a