For decades, Ousmane Sembène has carried the burden of being a representative for an entire continent’s cinema: essentially the only…
Read More →As I mentioned in my review of the previous “Walking Dead” spinoff “Dead City” months back, AMC’s flagship franchise must…
Read More →Prolific feminist filmmaker Jennifer Reeder first picked up a camera while studying performance at Ohio State University. While attending the…
Read More →I’ve been privileged and honored to work with the Venice Biennale College every year, watching its projects and presenting my…
Read More →Matt writes: Our critic Glenn Kenny is currently at the Venice Film Festival filing reviews for some of the year’s…
Read More →It’s going to be an unusual Toronto International Film Festival this year. With the dual strikes still rattling the industry,…
Read More →Alex Coppola’s documentary “Belongings” is a documentary whose subjects believe in spirits, but it’s a very casual kind of belief.…
Read More →Sofia Coppola is a personal filmmaker whose work follows a thematic through line: her pictures are all, in one way…
Read More →Remember the intermission scene in Mel Brooks’ 1966 “The Producers” where a won-over theatergoer bursts into the bar and exclaims,…
Read More →For his second cinematic magic trick of 2023 (the first was the sublime “Asteroid City“), director Wes Anderson conjures a…
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