Unconditional loves: the French director discusses her latest, a surreal and moving coming-of-age story that reimagines the ...

Screentime: Radu Jude‘s Kontinental ‘25 adapts its neorealist influences to our media-addled, morally bankrupt times ...

In what seems like the start of a missing-person yarn, Irakli, a teacher at a sports university in Georgia, begins traveling across the countryside searching for his daughter, Lisa, a photographer who ...

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Americans are the beloved noise-makers, the unschooled and the uncut, appreciated most when at their simplest. Poet Charles Bukowski is the classic case of the American original who found his first ...

By Maitland McDonagh in the May-June 2020 Issue A l Adamson made wild movies and lots of them; his work ethic was exemplary. They weren’t conventionally good, but they were chockablock with blood, ...

(Nikita Mikhalkov, Russia, 2007) For numerically titled Russian movies of the moment, stick with 4 instead of 12. Old soul Nikita Mikhalkov’s appropriation of the 12 Angry Men template is a bloated ...

(Yojiro Takita, Japan, 2008) The members of the Academy who gave Departures its Oscar must be feeling their mortality. The movie tells the story of a second-rate cellist who loses his job when an ...

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There is nevertheless occasional fun to be had, especially when he deigns to go full trash, as in Double Lover, a Joyce Carol Oates adaptation that sounds like a mid-’90s quick-to-video bodice ripper ...

Within moments of meeting a woman on a train, Norman Oppenheimer offers—unsolicited— to introduce her to three prominent people. That’s how Norman operates: he’s a “fixer,” a seemingly well-connected ...