Sirk’s next leave-taking, two decades later, was less momentous perhaps but even more astonishing. After having made the most successful movie in the history of Universal to that date (Imitation of ...

Sleight of hand: the recipient of Film at Lincoln Center’s 51st Chaplin Award has consistently performed a magic trick in ...

(Nikita Mikhalkov, Russia, 2007) For numerically titled Russian movies of the moment, stick with 4 instead of 12. Old soul Nikita Mikhalkov’s appropriation of the 12 Angry Men template is a bloated ...

In character: the recipient of the 51st Chaplin Award discusses key roles, his approach to his craft, and the vision of the ...

By Grady Hendrix in the March-April 2020 Issue P erpetually out of step, Shinya Tsukamoto goes where his gut leads him, handcrafting freaked-out sci-fi nightmares from 8mm, 16mm, 35mm, digital video, ...

Gone with the Wind Two brothel madams (or as close as Hollywood dared get to them), one a lurid gash of pornographic pink throbbing against William Cameron Menzies’ mourning-black backdrop of charred ...

With the flesh-hungry cannibal siblings of Raw (2016) and the murderous, androgynous mechanophile of Titane (2021), filmmaker Julia Ducournau injected fresh blood into New French Extremity. The ...

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In an interview conducted when he was making Europa ’51, Roberto Rossellini defined Italian neorealism as “a response to the genuine need to see men for what they are, with humility and without ...