Telluride Film Festival historically incorporates a fair number of documentary features and shorts alongside the main attraction, narrative features. This year, the documentary programming was thoughtfully...
I don’t want to say that this Telluride Film Festival has been more “political” this year than in the past, if only because political is such...
It was in 2015 that I received my first invitation to the Venice Film Festival from Peter Cowie, the venerable scholar and critic. His new book,...
The Venice Film Festival is one of the most essential film events of the year, the bridge to the fall film-going season and an event that...
Set in a nondescript working-class suburb of Sweden, “Paradise is Burning” focuses on three sisters whose mother is terminally absent. When the school begins to suspect...
A ferociously satisfying update of “First Blood” with a rustic Southern setting, “Rebel Ridge” furthers writer-director Jeremy Saulnier’s pattern of trapping his protagonists in tight spots...
It was in 2015 that I received my first invitation to the Venice Film Festival from Peter Cowie, the venerable scholar and critic. His new book,...
There is always an abundant amount of suspense when it comes to the Telluride Film Festival (TFF) lineup; it is kept secret until the Thursday before...
The Toronto International Film Festival gets underway this week with over 200 feature films and dozens of special events. We will have multiple people on the...
Parida Tantiwasadakran’s “Young People, Old People and Nothing In Between” centers on the friendship between a 7-year-old named Juice (Deedee Piamwiriyaku) with ADHD and her friend,...