Hiroyuki Imaishi is–in the very best way–one of animation’s finest ambassadors of ADHD. His 2004 directorial debut, Dead Leaves, is a masterpiece of sci-fi acti...
Between 1979 and 2015, the Chinese Communist Party was engaged in one of the greatest attempts at totalitarian social engineering in human history: the national...
It’s the end of an era. With the recently-completed transition of 20th Century Fox and all its various IP licenses to the Walt Disney Company–Hollywood’s very o...
In Werner Herzog’s 2011 documentary Into the Abyss, the irrepressible German master-turned-Hollywood-adventurer prefaces a series of interviews with two death r...
Since his 2006 breakthrough feature The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, anime director Mamoru Hosoda has delighted audiences across barriers of age, gender and nationality with his brightly animated, colorful fantasies....
After Monty Python and the Holy Grail eviscerated the self-seriousness of the Arthurian epic but before Shrek added pop songs and fart jokes galore, Rob Reiner and William Goldman’s The Princess Bride was pop culture’s definitive postmodern comic fairytale....
Less than half a year after Claude Lanzmann’s passing this past summer, the Quad Cinema in Manhattan has this week premiered the late documentarian’s Shoah: Four Sisters, a compilation of four short features described as “satellites” of his 1985 Holocaust magnum opus....
As his new documentary on Buster Keaton arrives, we ask the Hollywood legend about his favorite projects, the virtues and vices of the past, and more....
