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No Risk of Cliché: The Unorthodox Methods of Director Albert Serra Pay Off in The Death of Louis XIV
The contrast between absolute power and total impotence is the thematic core of Albert Serra’s latest portrait, The Death of…
Many told Tomáš Weinreb and Petr Kazda "You will never make this film," but the directors' persistence got their true…
Canoa exposes the relationship between a brutal historic crime in Mexico and the danger at the center of both faith…
Michael Fassbender’s Cook in Terrence Malick’s Song to Song is the insidious catalyst to the turmoil that enraptures the rest…
For his comedy Suntan, director Argyris Papadimitropoulos urged his actors to go out and drink, flirt and act stupid to…
The Gasparilla International Film Festival (March 2-9, 2017) continues to adhere to wise belief that in most cases less is…
Tampa Bay’s hometown heroes don’t get much bigger than actor Patrick Wilson, who grew up in St. Petersburg, Florida in…
Overseas attention for Pedro Almodóvar didn’t come until the release of Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown in…
In Richard Linklater’s Before films, Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke eschewed the actor's traditional passivity, taking on proactive roles as…
Breaking with what in recent editions served as a preview to the Academy Awards, the 2017 Independent Spirit Awards delivered
Karla Souza is uninterested in pursuing work that perpetuates outdated depictions of Latinas in entertainment, thank you very much.
The eight actors who received the Virtuosos Award from the Santa Barbara International Film Festival made a diverse and illustrious…
Writer-director Catalina Aguilar Mastretta talks making Everybody Loves Somebody, and defines what "Mexican filmmaker" and "woman filmmaker" mean to her.
Isabelle Huppert, often referred to as the greatest actress working today, is an artist with incomparable range. Few performers can
A visually economical war film, Martin Zandvliet’s Academy Award-nominated Land of Mine finds poetry in the spareness of the desert…
The actors recently received their second nominations together for their work in Damien Chazelle’s acclaimed box-office hit La La Land.
Few names inspire as much respect as Denzel Washington's. Audiences know him from, well, countless stellar performances in virtually all…
With Dark Night, Tim Sutton devised a fragmented narrative that follows a series of characters over a single day leading…
Nothing in recent memory rivals the audacious premise behind Agnieszka Smoczynska’s debut feature, The Lure, a new Polish gem.
A new player in indie financing and producing, Russell Levine has achieved success with projects that have premiered at major…
25 years after it debuted at Sundance, Quentin Tarantino talks Reservoir Dogs, what he learned from the festival's labs and…
Oscar-winning writer-director Asghar Faradi talks about giving clues for viewers without stating the obvious, milking suspense and what "Iranian film"…
Michaël Dudok de Wit, whom Studio Ghibli invited to be the company’s first animation collaborator, channels nature's beauty and mysteries…
MovieMaker speaks with director Maren Ade and star Sandra Hüller about shooting key sequences in their acclaimed dramedy Toni Erdmann.