The “social realism” sub-genre of drama has been awards bait in the European festival circuit lately and this year’s Locarno International Film Festival jury, l...
As with their Convergence section, the New York Film Festival offers an expanded view of the current cinema with yet another installment in their Projection...
Insofar as a Spain-Morocco-France-Qatar co-production that mostly earns comparisons to Jauja can be said to "have a moment," Oliver Laxe's Mimosas is, indee...
The Toronto International Film Festival has once again expanded their line-up, premiering virtually every forthcoming film one could think of. Today they've a...
Two echoing images. The film's very first, a reflection cast as our heroine, Luck (Subenja Pongkorn), stares into the glass window of a high-rise building as a ...
When attending a film festival and seeing a number of titles over the course of a few days, it can almost feel as if the viewer is forced to consider trends. Wi...
Beginning in 1937 -- the opening credits take us through a series of period photos and alert us to expect something with a potentially greater scope than simply...
To put it upfront, Eduardo Williams’ The Human Surge is pretty much a film that, by nature, is unlovable. Often blatantly ugly or boring, it’s not so much delib...
It was around the time Pierre Bismuth won his Oscar as an original story creator on Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind that he stumbled upon an unknown work ...
