Film
‘BCN left behind some big shoes, but they can be filled. And there are inspiring signs that the kids, not the grizzled veterans of last century, will do the filling.
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Family Romance, LLC is a wrong-headed, inferior Herzog movie. Wake up, Werner! Oh, for a jolt of Klaus Kinski.
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The Truth is simply a delightful film all around.
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Becoming the Song charts Denise Ho’s political awakening, her transformation from Cantopop icon to human rights activist amidst the backdrop of an increasingly turbulent Hong Kong.
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Babyteeth is a lovely film, an unusually mature coming-of-age story that juggles restraint and abandon with astonishing ease.
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Five more feature films of great interest and their links, carefully chosen to get you through the travails of the coronavirus.
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Director Agnieszka Holland deftly presents a vision of genocide that is hard-hitting but never manipulative: the horror pervades the monochrome beauty of snow, skeletal trees, and pale, sunken faces.
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Working Man does an excellent job dramatizing the poverty and desperation of people who live paycheck to paycheck.
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The delicious cheekiness of the film is to present a story about two gay immigrants as a swooning romantic epic spanning years.
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Film Commentary: Fellini at 100 — How the Mighty Have Tumbled
It seems evident that hardly anyone knows about the centenary of a moviemaker who, in earlier days, was universally revered, whose hallowed name was synonymous with art-house cinema.
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