Almost Love — which is focused on two gay men in the doldrums of a long-term relationship — is something…
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Martin Scorsese says his next film, Killers of the Flower Moon, feels like a Western — a genre he's never…
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Citizen K director Alex Gibney produced two episodes of the Martin Scorsese PBS series The Blues years ago, and he's…
Martin Scorsese's main problem with Marvel movies isn't that they are "not cinema." It's that they're taking up theater screens…
Martin Scorsese's latest comments on "theme park" Marvel movies and how they have "invaded" theaters are bound to be misinterpreted…
Divided into two distinctively wondrous halves—one pastoral/one urban—modern parable Happy as Lazzaro (Lazzaro felice) is a new stroke of genius…
Kenneth Lonergan is a playwright, screenwriter, and director best-known for his searing Oscar-winning original screenplay for Manchester by the Sea.…
On the back of the door to the office of Elara Pictures, the production company created and run by fraternal…
Having touched on the rich cultural heritage of West Africa with “Feel Like Going Home,” an episode in his 2003…
"It's better to be feared than to be loved," goes the old adage—paraphrased from Niccolò Machiavelli's The Prince by a world-weary…
Karla Souza is uninterested in pursuing work that perpetuates outdated depictions of Latinas in entertainment, thank you very much. The…
In Steve James’ beautiful documentary Life Itself (2014), these are the first words we hear from critic Roger Ebert, whose…
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Many of Martin Scorsese's characters fancy themselves masters of their own universe. But what makes them so sure? As we've…
What do winter weather, the holiday season and the end of 2016 have in common? They're all pretty damn cool.…
A no-budget indie often demands that the director be his or her own editor—getting two for the price of one.…
Liam Neeson is having a big week. First up, he voices a benevolent but scary monster in the form of…
When storyboard artist Kurt van der Basch and director Tom Tykwer first met in 2012, the latter was already an…
“I don’t believe in God,” actor Javier Bardem once said, “I believe in… Al Pacino.” For many of us, movies…
Paul Schrader is learning a lot these days. Simultaneously excited about the future of moviemaking and pessimistic about its finances,…
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Andrzej Wajda, the powerhouse purveyor of Polish cinema with a celebrated knack for devastating depictions of war-torn Europe, passed away…