Abbas Kiarostami is considered by many the champion of Iranian cinema by making films that embodied an enigmatic point of view on culture, art, society and ...
Welcome to the latest episode of our official podcast, The Film Stage Show. This week staff writer Danny King, associate editor Nick Newman, and I begin by ...
Olivier Assayas, the French-born titan of international cinema, has been making films for more than 25 years. Although he, in this time, has managed to jump...
In an ironic way, Not Fade Away is perhaps most interesting when it's explicitly referencing the small-screen roots of its writer-director, Sopranos honcho Davi...
How do you tease an upcoming film when the entirety of its footage comes from a classic? UK distributors Metrodome have gone the safe route in the first tra...
Talk about timing. Just as the first NYFF press screening let out for David Chase's directorial debut Not Fade Away (our review coming soon), Paramount has ...
Sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll and revolution -- all these things and more occupy the latest film from France's brilliant Olivier Assayas. Following his 330-minu...
Who needs a real poster when you've got Denzel Washington as your lead? Paramount seems to have taken that approach when it comes to their upcoming drama Fl...
Life of Pi, Ang Lee's gallant, visually overwhelming adaptation of Yann Martel's bestseller, takes a little while to get going. The animals-are-precious opening...
What's so greatly appealing about Christian Petzold's Barbara is that, for a good chunk of its 105-minute runtime, the film douses itself in an atmosphere of re...
