The 1969 Sir George Williams Affair seems like something we should all know about. It occurred only a year after Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination and prov...
Earlier this year, Kent Jones’ Hitchcock /Truffaut -- a documentary on the famous interview sessions between the two directors -- boasted perhaps the most chaot...
Alexander Woollcott once remarked, "All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal, or fattening." Art is wonderful because it allows us to indu...
The attacks of November 2008 in Mumbai that left 195 people dead become a claustrophobic, almost austere affair in the hit-and-miss Taj Mahal, starring Nymphoma...
As the Venice Film Festival enters its final phase, the competition throws up perhaps its most unknown quantity as celebrated New York City polymath Laurie Ande...
An emperor’s new clothes of technical virtuosity, veteran Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski’s latest is a frenetic, kinetic, but largely insipid speed through t...
Such is my fondness for 2006’s A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints that even ten years later I’m always on the hunt for new films from director Dito Montiel. The...
Amos Gitai is almost a running joke here at Venice. He’s had a film in competition on the Lido for the last three years (Tsili, Ana Arabia and Lullaby to My Fat...
In only his second outing as sole director after 2012’s acclaimed A Hijacking, Tobias Lindholm is commanding unusual levels of respect and anticipation with A W...
