We talk with the director of one of 2015's best films about audience reaction, his lack of interest in psychoanalyzing his characters, and why The Duke of Burgundy is a “party-pooper film.” ...
While I certainly won't evoke Chicken Little, and while the box office was down this year, the sky is not totally falling cinematically. But if we're speaking...
This weekend, New York City's Film Society of Lincoln Center is kicking off one of the finest, most comprehensive retrospectives of the year with Let There ...
While we discuss a breadth of films each year, few things give us more pleasure than the arrival of bold, new voices in the world of filmmaking. It's why we venture to film festivals and pore over a variety of different features in order to bring to light emerging talent. This year was an especially notable time for new directors making their stamp and today we're highlighted the fifteen debuts that most impressed us....
Few films each year get the distinction of screening at the majority of the major film festivals, but following in the path of Blue Ruin, Only Lovers Left A...
Perhaps in another version of Takashi Miike’s latest film (and his first to be receiving a proper US distribution deal since 2011’s 3D extravaganza Hari-Kiri), ...
One would be hard-pressed to argue for Jean-Luc Godard’s Goodbye to Language as obscure or below-the-radar. Following a recent premiere at Cannes, where the...
It was only a year ago when Alex Ross Perry's name was mentioned primarily among a small, supportive group of cinephiles, this contingent visibly excited by...
Alongside promoting Exodus: Gods and Kings this fall, Ridley Scott will also be focusing on his next project, a return to the world of sci-fi with The Marti...
"James [Franco] has really resuscitated my interest and understanding what independent film is supposed to be, which is relentlessly author drive and director driven, but utterly inclusive, and to use that seeming contradiction to balance a collective approach to filmmaking that, nevertheless, has a very clear point of view."...
