Film
Cinema at its best is a a place where seemingly irresolvable conflicts can find, if not resolution, then some common ground.
“The Zone of Interest” is a cinematic embodiment of Hannah Arendt’s famous phrase “the banality of evil.”
“Mami Wata” beautifully cracks open a world Western eyes either blatantly ignore or seldom get to experience on screen.
The first of three review round-ups from this year’s London Film Festival’s excellent slate of films.
“Archive” sprung from Sofia Coppola’s desire to record what her mind’s organized chaos says about her and her films.
This is a Strindbergian dance to the death between a powerful, accomplished woman and a husband tormented by his own sense of failure.
Werner Herzog likes the odds in “Every Man for Himself and God Against All.”
What happens when, through unwillingness or incapacity, memory is lost or forsaken? Two documentaries at the CineFest Latino Boston explore some answers.
Watching Cassandro become the “Liberace of Luchadors” is enthralling in itself, but we are also given the drama of seeing the protagonist wrestle with his own personal demons.
The unpleasantness of the film’s first sex scene turns out to be a foreshadowing of a refreshingly curdled vision of insecurity in the 21st century.
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