Give me a brooding mid-1970s Detroit nightscape stained with grubby neon, drop a body with a severed leg off a building and crank up a David Bowie song and you […]
Venice Film Festival Awards: Jim Jarmusch’s ‘Father Mother Sister Brother’ Wins Golden Lion
The undeniably robust 82nd edition of the Venice International Film Festival has come to a triumphant finish. Heading into Saturday night’s awards ceremony, Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania’s The Voice […]
‘On the Road’ Review: An Extremely Tough, Incredibly Tender Story of Two Men Falling in Love on Mexico’s Deadly Highways
Picture Brokeback Mountain crossed with a particularly gruesome episode of Narcos: Mexico, then filled with enough sex and nudity to earn an NC-17 rating, and you’ll get an inkling of […]
‘Silent Friend’ Review: Tony Leung and Léa Seydoux Share the Spotlight With Plants in a Rich and Strange Scientific Drama
It’s unclear if Hungarian filmmaker Ildikó Enyedi was inspired by the seminal 1979 Stevie Wonder album, Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants, for her latest enigmatic feature, Silent Friend. […]
‘100 Nights of Hero’ Review: Emma Corrin, Maika Monroe and Charli xcx Rock Cool Frocks in a Style-Over-Substance Fantasy Film
Retro in interesting ways and visually luscious, 100 Nights of Hero represents a compelling if uneven sophomore effort from British writer-director Julia Jackman, swerving here from the affable comic 2000s-set […]
‘Remake’ Review: Ross McElwee’s Heartbreaking Study of Movies and Memory Turns the Camera on His Own Family Tragedy
For a director who built a remarkable career around filming his own life — for better or worse, through thick and thin, commenting on it with plenty of wit and […]
Seth Rogen’s Surprise Appearance at Venice Film Festival Confirmed as Research for ‘The Studio’
Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s critically acclaimed Hollywood satire The Studio pulled back the velvet rope to let viewers inside high-profile industry events like the Golden Globes and CinemaCon. Hours […]
Sofia Coppola Prepares to Premiere Her Intimate Portrait of Friend Marc Jacobs in Venice, But “I Didn’t Want It to Be About Me”
Sofia Coppola‘s intimate portrait of fashion designer and her long-time friend Marc Jacobs premieres in Venice on Tuesday, and the pair are nothing but full of praise for one another. […]
‘The Ivy’ Tells of an Unexpected Bond, Unresolved Desire, and Trauma (Exclusive Venice Clip)
A connection formed between two outsiders from different social backgrounds and of different ages, which transcends trauma in a world that tries to exclude them, is at the heart of […]
Venice: Kaouther Ben Hania on Gaza Drama ‘The Voice of Hind Rajab’: “At Least, With This Film, I Wasn’t Silenced”
For more than a decade, Tunisian filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania has blurred the boundaries between fiction and nonfiction, crafting work that moves between dramatization and documentary while remaining anchored in […]