Contemporary Hollywood has steadfastly avoided the workplace—unless the jobs are particularly glamorous (Broadcast News, The Devil Wears Prada), or the workers unfairly exploited (Silkwood, North ...

I love everything that flows, everything that has time in it and becoming, that brings us back to the beginning where there is never end. “In New Orleans, water is like a god, like a Greek god that ...

Aleksei German is 73 years old. He dreamed of becoming a doctor, but ended up a lifelong filmmaker—but one who’s made only six films. The first of these, The Seventh Companion (68), was co-directed ...

The close-up is partially a product of technological evolution, but it’s also the result of an artistic evolution. The lenses required for close-ups were available early on. When filmmaking began, ...

The story of Third World Cinema Corporation—a fledging production house founded by Black and Latino artists in 1971—is at once inspirational and heartbreaking. An earnest “for us, by us” effort to ...

Taxi Driver has a lot of negative aspects, but it would be silly to shrug off its baroque visuals and its high-class actor, Robert De Niro, whose acting range is always underscored by a personal ...

Like the shadows blocking out key areas of the frame in a Val Lewton film, or the requisite locked attic door in a haunted-house story, the narrative ellipses that open Claire Denis’s murky, ...

One can look at these two skillful, innovative, intermittently exciting movies as exercises in pure form, and many people do. There is something purely cinematic about them—both exemplify cinema as an ...

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By Jordan Cronk in the May-June 2020 Issue E leven years after their modest, award-winning feature debut The Anchorage, C.W. Winter and Anders Edström return with an opus several times more ambitious.

In 1961, Jacques Rivette wrote a short Cahiers du Cinéma review of Gillo Pontecorvo’s Kapò (60), a grim Holocaust drama whose many horrors include the sight of a young concentration camp prisoner ...

Gone fishing: the documentarian talks about his first feature in over a decade, an emotionally devastating and intricately ...