Shirin Neshat's Women without Men and Hana Makhmalbaf's Green Days are both set in Iran during turbulent periods of that nation's history - Women, half a century ago; Green Days, just months ago. Both
"Jane Campion's Bright Star gives us not a brash or bratty Keats," writes Jessica Winter at Moving Image Source, "but textbook emo-Keats: feline and kind, delicate and almost vaporous, a little histrionic;
"Nemo Nobody is dying," writes Todd Brown at Twitch. "Nemo Nobody is in love. Nemo Nobody is old and infirm. Nemo Nobody is a wide-eyed child. Nemo Nobody is rich and successful. Nemo Nobody is a wild
Fatih Akin's Soul Kitchen won the Special Jury Prize in Venice and screens today, tomorrow and Saturday in Toronto. "So over-the-top boisterous that I initially misinterpreted its gleeful
"With his movie debut A Single Man, Tom Ford proves he's just as much of a stylist in the director's chair as he was when he turned around the fortunes of Italian fashion house Gucci in the
The Venezia 66 Jury, headed up by Ang Lee, has awarded the Golden Lion to Samuel Maoz's Lebanon; here's the roundup of reviews so far. The Silver Lion for Best Director goes to Shirin
Where to begin. Perhaps with Scott Foundas's introduction to "Serge Bromberg, who began fervently collecting films at age nine, and today, four decades later, might best be described as an
Jennifer's Body hits theaters next week, but since it's opened the Midnight Madness program in Toronto, we can go ahead and get it out of the way right now. "I'm on record as liking
As Venice winds down and Toronto revs up, US audiences are looking at a strange weekend at the movies. 9 and Crude (roundups) are already out and what's left signals a reluctance on the part
"In case you missed it, 2009 is the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his masterpiece, On the Origin of Species." Blogging
"In every sense, I Am Love is a stunning achievement," declares Jay Weissberg in Variety (where Nick Vivarelli reports on the press conference in Venice). "Luca Guadagnino does more than expertly
"If you wanted to script a cautionary tale about the politics of fame (and the fame of politics), you couldn't come up with anything more apt and odd thanErik Gandini's documentary Videocracy