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Charles Poekel’s evocative film Christmas, Again is set to become a minor holiday classic. A tender young man, appropriately named Noel (Kentucker Audley), spends his nights selling trees while battling the ever-present ghosts of loneliness and depression.
Entertainment, Rick Alverson’s latest work after 2012’s The Comedy, uses these misled expectations as the basis to create a narrative familiar on the surface, but one that is not concerned with tidy explanations, certainty, cohesiveness or political correctness.
“Nasty Baby,” starring Silva himself, Kristen Wiig, and Tunde Adebimpe, a gay couple and their best friend attempt to have a child that they can raise together, but though this premise sounds harmless there is darkness lurking around.
Wielding old grudges and fierce regrets as sharpened weapons, two women reassess their friendship in Queen of Earth, an intense interior drama from Alex Ross Perry.
Starring Carey Mulligan, Matthias Schoenaerts, and Michael Sheen, Thomas Vinterberg’s latest film is a new screen adaption of Thomas Hardy’s late 19th-century classic Far From the Madding Crowd.
Prolific and utterly unconventional, the filmmaking duo of Rania Attieh and Daniel Garcia, screened their latest film, H., as part of the NEXT section at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, and at the 65 Berlinale last week.
Chekhovian philosophical debates filter through complex characters in Turkish auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s magnificent Winter Sleep.
What’s most enjoyable, both in films and in life, isn’t the destination itself but the journey—even if the promised land […]
This week’s Crowdfunder Pick is Ambulante, a travelling documentary film festival founded by the likes of Diego Luna and Gael Garcia Bernal. With three Mexico tours under its belt, Ambulante is launching what it hopes to be a US tour with 12 stops in California.
An antidote for cynicism that still upholds the truth of its characters’ struggles, Louise Archambault’s Gabrielle is a refreshingly heartwarming and peculiar love story. Its title character is based on Gabrielle Marion Rivard, a real woman with Williams syndrome.
Heli earned Amat Escalante the Best Director Award at Cannes in 2013 and was chosen as Mexico’s official Oscar submission earlier this year. Here is what the director had to say about the controversial film.
In the mid-1960s, Claude Lelouch’s film A Man and a Woman achieved international success.
