Betsy Sherman
Tehran Taboo –- which never would have been allowed to be filmed in its title city—is technically accomplished in its often gorgeous visuals and its textured sound design.
Dorothy Mackaill is riveting as Gilda, a wronged working woman turned prostitute in the no-options depths of Depression-era New Orleans.
Finding Kukan is a compelling detective story covering the fields of World War II history and film preservation.
The interviewees sound warnings about how we have self-sorted, online and in the real world, into echo-chamber communities of like-minded people.
From the homogeneous small town of Spettacolo, we travel to One October‘s ethnic gumbo of eight million in New York City.
The absurdist comedy Sylvio suffers from chronic low energy, but Tormenting the Hen is mysterious and magnetic.
Marcel Pagnol’s great Marseille Trilogy is a tragicomic love story set on the bustling, sun-drenched docks of a Mediterranean port.
There was a good energy to the depiction of movie-Woody’s nocturnal odyssey, and a few funny bits.
A 30-film series dedicated to Busby Berkeley, Hollywood’s architect of mind-blowing musical production numbers.
Arts Commentary: The Orchestra Gap — Europe vs. the US