No fun: boredom predominates in Bong Joon Ho‘s Mickey 17, for the characters and the audience alike ...

Vincent (Jean-Baptiste Durand): Martine’s hot-tempered son and a childhood friend of Jérémie’s. Walter (David Ayala): A village farmer, currently unemployed and rather shabby. The Priest: Possesses ...

Locally sourced: this year’s edition of the True/False Film Festival was a haven for principled cinephilia, with highlights ...

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The weather was pleasant but the zeitgeist damp on the last day of the 75th Berlinale, as Germans voted in the federal election. More than 20 percent of the votes cast were for Alternative for Germany ...

I didn’t want to feel like the woman director. I wanted to feel like one of many women directors. If Silver’s films don’t fit neatly into a broader movement or ethos, it may be because their ...

For the New Woman, a new melodrama: Coming Home instead of Written on the Wind. David Ehrenstein examines this hip, old-fashioned genre. By David Ehrenstein in the September-October 1978 Issue The ...

An example: a brilliant Brazilian director and friend, João Jardim, made a beautiful documentary in 2001 called Window of the Soul that he brought to me for the mix. The first scene is a close-up of a ...