It’s been a year since Kamei Yara’s dad disappeared. The 16-year-old who lives on Okinawa’s main island has been a bit of a wreck since, but he’s holding it together…
The war has just ended and the summer has begun. It’s 1945 in Copenhagen, Denmark, and Nazi rule is no more. Hope abounds, but there’s a new hypocrisy afoot in…
Following Ida and Cold War, Paweł Pawlikowski returned to Cannes with Fatherland, a drama starring Sandra Hüller and Hanns Zischler, and which earned him a Best Director prize. Ahead of…
After premiering in Spain and then coming to Cannes Film Festival, Pedro Almodóvar’s latest feature Bitter Christmas will finally be coming to North America this fall. After stopping at TIFF…
A true cult classic and an underground cinema landmark championed by the likes of Susan Sontag and Amos Vogel, E. Elias Merhige’s 1989 experimental feature Begotten has now received a…
To say what Casey Affleck’s Company is really about is to spoil its major twist. It’s not a Sondheim thing, I can tell you that. But outside of setting and…
Coal miners from Kentucky traveled to New York City months into their 1973 strike to increase their struggle’s profile. As documented by Barbara Kopple in Harlan County, USA, one of…
We’re now just about three weeks away from the release of Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s next film Digger, featuring Tom Cruise undergoing quite the transformation to play oil tycoon Digger Rockwell.…
There are several reasons a director can decide to remake their own work. It could be an instance of having greater resources and being more confident in your skills, as…
