Peter Keough
At the Global Cinema Film Festival, some look for love and life in all the wrong places.
Redemption awaits “When Fall Is Coming.”
Though lapsing at times into hagiography and muddled synopsizing, James Miller’s study of filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar is a bracing reminder of the greatness and ever-evolving genius of this world-class artist.
Director Victoria Verseau’s Trans Memoria is an oneiric, brutally frank meditation on the pains and rewards of transgender surgery.
Director Alain Guiraudie’s latest film is a darkly hilarious, polymorphously perverse paean to compassion.
Two essential documentaries look at the legacies of Leni Riefenstahl and Elie Wiesel.
Errol Morris takes another look at Helter Skelter and the Charles Manson murders.

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