Jean-Paul Belmondo: 1933-2021
When Film Forum ran a retrospective of Mikio Naruse films in 2005, there was a trailer for a 1960 Claude Sautet movie called “Classe Tous Risques” that ran before each…
Read moreWhen Film Forum ran a retrospective of Mikio Naruse films in 2005, there was a trailer for a 1960 Claude Sautet movie called “Classe Tous Risques” that ran before each…
Read moreTelluride has commonly centered documentaries that celebrate artists, and three of their most high-profile non-fiction films of this unusual year detailed the lives of incredibly influential musicians. I went into…
Read moreBecause of COVID restrictions—and boy, sentences starting with that phrase never get old, do they—the Venice Film Festival is only seating at 50 percent capacity in its venues. The seats…
Read moreRiz Ahmed stars in Bassam Tariq’s “Mogul Mowgli” as a Pakistani-British rapper named Zed, who is just about to make it big. He’s been working at this career for decades,…
Read moreEven when you’re at one of the most prestigious and venerated film festivals in the world, there’s no guarantee that you won’t see a bad movie. And yet as my…
Read moreA stylistically diverse trio of perceptive films, all charged by searching male leads, made for an unusual thematic group in this year’s Telluride Film Festival. The first of them is…
Read moreRobert Greene has long been interested in what can be learned by shifting reality through performance in films like “Kate Plays Christine” and “Bisbee ’17.” His latest, “Procession,” which just…
Read moreEdgar Wright is a genre filmmaker who believes that more is more, and after the Venice premiere of his new horror picture “Last Night in Soho,” I heard from more…
Read moreThe Telluride Film Festival, presented by the National Film Preserve, has announced its official program selections for its 48th edition in Telluride, Colorado, which will take place from Thursday, September…
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