Film
The Berlin international Film Festival has always been an event where films on art, architecture, and design premiere. This year, as always, the selections were a mixed bag.
Matt Reeves’ The Batman features villains who lose their shit when faced with an African American politician whose campaign slogan is centered on “Change.”
Diamonds, drugs, and sex — the stuff of movies.
There is much to recommend in this opulently romantic film.
Strawberry Mansion‘s biggest asset is that it employs so many different artistic techniques to create a world as wildly inventive as it is heart-achingly sincere.
A trio of independent movies draw on sci-fi to explore the nooks and crannies of creativity.
Two stylistically different films in which workers are exploited and empowered.
This is an opulent and ambitious historical drama, as attentive to small intimate scenes as it is to grandiose action sequences.
A suspenseful, finely-crafted historical thriller that reminds us that the triumph of evil depends on good men doing nothing.
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