All Quiet On The Roman Front: It's been about two weeks since the Zurich arrest of director Roman Polanski, and while Google news searches continue to yield plenty of results, the overall feeling
This suitably autumnal poster for Louis Malle’s Le feu follet (The Fire Within) was the creation of the brilliant German designer Hans Hillmann. Now 83 years old, Hillmann was a major film poster designer
While the New York Film Festival runs on through the weekend, a slew of other festivals around the world are suddenly kicking into gear. Let's start with the Pusan International Film Festival, running
"Following her 2003 debut The Forest for the Trees, 32-year-old German writer-director Maren Ade's trenchant, funny, and sensitive Everyone Else (Alle Anderen) cuts deeper than an Oscar season's worth
Clarence Brown made a long and successful career, after getting his start taking over The Last of the Mohicans from Maurice Touneur in 1920 (see last Thursday's article), as a director of MGM romantic
A discussion with the French director on her Isabelle Hupper-starring White Material.
"Although it occasionally gets carried away by its own reflexive spirit, Independencia is far more than the cute formal exercise its premise suggests," writes Andrew Schenker in the L Magazine. "As
"After giving free-floating dread a gargantuan, tentacled form in The Host, Bong Joon-ho returns to human-sized monsters in Mother." Fernando F Croce in Slant: "No less than the toxic leviathan in
Some films, and filmmakers, just can't catch the right kind of breaks as far as international reputation goes. A very smart United States distributor circa 1959 or '60 or so, recognizing this film's
It's a funny thing: A viewing experience as engrossing, exhilarating and frequently moving as Portuguese director Rodrigues' latest ought to resonate, and richly, on reflection. Instead, when contemplating
"In its quest to reconcile the life of imagination and primal desire with the physical realities that close in around us, [João Pedro] Rodrigues's cinema sets his characters off sniffing, licking
"As in Monster's Ball, which he produced, and his first feature, the equally odious Shadowboxer, [Lee] Daniels emphasizes only the worst in human nature, and does so in a way that flatters rather than