"With a slender running time of 64 minutes," writes Acquarello, "Eccentricities of a Blond Hair Girl is a compact, richly textured illustration of [Manoel de] Oliveira's multivalent approach to storytelling
The People's Republic of China celebrates its 60th anniversary tomorrow and, as you've no doubt heard, it's going to be one helluva show. Sharon LaFraniere has detailed the meticulous preparations
Four films from TIFF's documentary program wound up with entries of their own this year. Here are notes on several more... Alissa Simon in Variety: "An affecting portrait of an inspiring woman, fine
"Less is more in the sophomore feature by Cannes Camera d'or winner Corneliu Porumboiu (12:08 East of Bucharest), a filmmaker attentive, like his fellow under-40 countrymen Cristi Puiu and Cristian
Yesterday someone quipped on Twitter something to the effect that it was hard to believe Roman Polanski had fallen for the old Lifetime Achievement Award at the Zurich Film Festival trick. As you're
"With rugged reverence," begins Nick Schager in Slant, "Sweetgrass depicts the final sheepherder drive into Montana's Beartooth mountains, a saga that begins on farms where sheep are born and shorn
Halloween got off to an early start up north with the Toronto After Dark Film Festival in August (see Bob Turnbull's enthusiastic coverage). The spirit then moved through TIFF's Midnight Madness program
The Pedro Costa retrospective currently underway at the Tate Modern (through October 4) occasions two pieces in the new issue of Sight & Sound and an announcement from Criterion: a box set including
"'After the cinema, nothing surprises you. Everything is possible.' So says the lovesick obsessive Georges Palet in a scene from Wild Grass, the 18th feature film directed by Alain Resnais, which arrives
It's been a week of unusual releases, and by that I don't (necessarily) mean the movies themselves, but rather the releases - the ways and means. It started on Monday with a global launch coinciding
Like Toronto, the New York Film Festival is one for which it's not only possible, but also hopefully helpful to write up an index before the festival actually begins. Even back in August, when the
"Following in the grand tradition of austere European filmmakers, Bruno Dumont gives religious faith quite a workout in his new film, Hadewijch," writes Michael Koresky at indieWIRE. "Not that this