Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey offers up a strangely bloodless vision of Homer’s lively world of men and gods ...
Balls of Fire. This year’s edition of the Italian festival devoted to restored and rediscovered films brought the hea ...
Robert Daniels joins to discuss festival highlights Dao, The Hanging of Stuart Cornfeld, 3 Weeks After, and more ...
Critics Robert Daniels and Guy Lodge join to discuss a pair of buzzed-about Bulgarian films and other highlights from the ...
Colonialism has always been the subtext of the Argentine filmmaker's work. In her first documentary feature, it is the text “Martel recognizes that to tell this story, detours will be necessary into ...
A handful of films won multiple awards over the weekend as the 2016 Sundance Film Festival came to a close. Nate Parker’s The Birth of a Nation—the story of Nat Turner and the 1831 slave ...
What are the scripts like for the parodies? I get a very structured script. Often the original scripts have about 25 percent more panels than what shows up in the final parody. The editors trim them ...
One of the reliable highlights of Bologna’s Il Cinema Ritrovato festival is its slate of centennial programs. While the major American productions—The Birth of a Nation and The Cheat—were missing from ...
It’s all over. Well, not quite, but the 2010s did come to an end on a note of pessimism about the world, and one of resignation about the film industry’s consolidation and glut of choice. At the same ...
This year on the Croisette, it’s easy to lose count of the number of logos that precede a film’s opening credits, representing money patchworked together from across multiple countries, each ...
Read this story as part of the archived issue. The films you’ve made since beginning Histoire(s) du cinéma are more emotional than anything you’ve done before. Each feels like an attempt at ...
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