"Following so hot on the heels of Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans that the latter's shoe leather will be scuffed," begins Leslie Felperin in Variety, "Werner Herzog's My Son, My Son
"Did you hear the one about the German maverick who signed on to remake a notorious existential American policier and turned it into a stuffy, if pleasingly ridiculous b-picture?" asks Time
"In revisiting his darkly comic 1998 ensembler Happiness, Todd Solondz may have made his best film with Life During Wartime," proposes Todd McCarthyin Variety. "The distinctive, boundary-pushing
The Telluride Film Festival, opening tomorrow and running through Labor Day, has unveiled the lineup for this year's 36th edition. Here's what we know so far about each of the films screening
The Road, John Hillcoat's adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, has been knocked around the release schedule for some time now, but David Jenkins (Time
"The 66th edition of the Venice Film Festival got underway Wednesday with an epic and sentimental homage to the Sicilian Oscar-winning director Giuseppe Tornatore and a gala ceremony hosted
Last day of August, and not a moment too soon. While others sort out the implications of Disney's acquisition of Marvel (have at it, folks), we're anxiously awaiting the more or less official
"At the flicker of a switchWe can count the stars"The Auteurs, Lights Out (1999)Fin aout, debut septembre...And that's on balance good news, because it means the countdown to the next Viennale
"Dear everyone with blase reactions to the NYFF lineup in the indieWIRE piece," C Mason Wells tweeted yesterday: "it must be hard leading such joyless lives." In the piece he's referring to, iW editor Eugene
Above: Laetitia Guerard and Leora Barbara in Sylvie Verheyde's Stella (Verheyde, France). "It's never too soon // To tread the boardsI was in vaudeville // At age fiveMy career took // Its first nosedive
Though they surely didn't intend it, when Warner Bros moved the release of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince to the dead center of the summer season, they planted a film there that sums up its
We talked to the French New Wave critic and filmmaker in Cannes about his documentary Land of Madness, King Vidor, murder and more.