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Blue Moon is the better of Richard Linklater's two new films.
The technical wizardry on display may only be possible today, but the ideas in The Testament of Ann Lee are timeless.
Good Fortune’s bad fortune is that it grinds a political ax, with stupid politics.
Douglas Sirk's All That Heaven Allows is one of the few films that grows richer and richer with each subsequent viewing.
Hamnet is a powerful romantic drama, but its insights on Shakespeare’s writing are sparse.
The werewolf is too nice.
A rooster recalls one night in Hollywood, winter 2000.
“Movies for adults” are bombing because contemporary adults recognize and reject their clichés.
The remake makes the original look good.
Memories of a mid-1990s film shoot somewhere in California… and Arizona. || Bennington Quibbits
Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere is an uninspired biopic with nothing new to say.
The films of Alejandro Amenábar, from The Others to Open Your Eyes and more.
Bravery’s often overstated in discussions of filmmaking.
Ed Montoro headed Film Ventures International, a B-movie distributor focused on low-budget horror, martial arts and sexploitation shock flicks.
Willem Dafoe’s a reclusive artist in a literary satire about the perception of artistry by different generations.
Plus, musings about the generations.
Kerouac’s Road may map his travels, but it misses the destination.
Italian filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino’s latest effort is a thoughtful consideration of the burden of power.
Film mirrors the world, and bars are microcosms of the world.
Noah Baumbach’s latest dramedy is a deconstructionist take on one of Hollywood’s most recognizable leading men.
Hollywood has neglected the post-Pearl Harbor treatment of Japanese-Americans, but this film takes it on.
The director talks about his new films Blue Moon and Nouvelle Vague and more in this recent interview.
The filmmaker returns to the scene of the crime in this new video recorded by the Criterion Collection.
The filmmaker talks about New York being on the avant garde of all that's good and bad in America and more in this 1979 interview.
The writer pans the new film from Paul Thomas Anderson.
Roger and James Deakins talk to the cinematographer of Heat and many more in this new interview.
The cinematographer talks about shooting There Will Be Blood, Punch-Drunk Love, and the end of his relationship with Paul Thomas Anderson.
Roger and James Deakins talk to the director of Exotica, The Sweet Hereafter, Seven Veils, and more.
Anderson, Leonardo DiCaprio, Teyana Taylor and more talk about their new film in this Q&A recorded at at Lincoln Center.
Paul Thomas Anderson talks to Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo about his new film.