Utopian Comedies: The Films of Jim Finn, the filmmaker's first retrospective in the US, opens this evening at New York's Anthology Film Archives and runs through Wednesday. "Finn is a major talent
There are more reviews and interviews still to come, but the coverage-of-the-coverage phase wraps up right here with a last round on films that screened at this year's Cannes Film Festival but
Dennis Lim introduces an interview for the New York Times: "Of the 30-plus documentaries Frederick Wiseman has made in his fortysomething-year career, most are portraits of institutions, peeling
"When the trailer for the film first appeared and caused something of a cult buzz in the online community," begins Todd Brown at Twitch, "the attention was split evenly between the fact that the
Monsieur Ripois (1954), directed by René Clément, is a rather wonderful and sophisticated drama/character study which deposits scheming philanderer Gérard Philipe into the heart of austerity-era England
"Vincente Minnelli disowned his last movie, A Matter of Time (1976), when it was taken away from him by its producers, American International Pictures, and after its initial release it pretty much
Peter Bradshaw in the Guardian on Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow: "With infinite patience and care, and a sense of how the movie camera can both record and also participate in the process of making
Man is split into three in Ha Ha Ha: the true, the false, and the film's hero, placed in the middle. To complicate matters, we are in the realm of South Korean auteur Hong Sang-soo, so these three are
01Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand)Film Socialisme (Jean Luc Godard, Switzerland) 02The Strange Case of Angelica (Manoel de Oliveira, Portugal)Hands Up
"The cinema of Stan Brakhage has been interpreted as abstract, mythopoeic, philological, and lyrical," writes Joseph Jon Lanthier in Slant, "but it's his hyper-auteurist approach that might be
"As the title suggests, The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu is hardly a conventional historical documentary," writes Dennis Lim, introducing another interview for the New York Times. "Andrei
"The debut feature from the British filmmaker Alicia Duffy, which premiered in the Directors' Fortnight, is a disquieting tale of obsession and violence in the French countryside," writes the Guardian