Tag: film

“Gilliam does believe that the end of society may soon be upon us. The question for him is: What shape will the new one take?”

My favorite director, Lynn Shelton, died suddenly this month at the age of 54. Did the spirit of indie filmmaking go with her?

Give me a Bolaño novel that starts with a guy walking into a bar, and then another guy starts telling him a story, and the rest of that novel is just the second guy telling that story.

Dipti S. Barot pays homage to the two irreplaceable voices who informed her love of good movies.

Almost everything you think you know about Aladdin is wrong.

The movie theater was once a kind of lay church, with festivals like TIFF serving as annual religious holidays — until new houses of worship opened online.

In their time, “Jaws” and “Nashville” were regarded as Watergate films, and both were in production as the Watergate disaster played its final act.

With ‘Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood,’ Quentin Tarantino slakes his thirst for nostalgia while he plays god with another piece of history.

What/If references the celebrated steamy genre of the 80s and 90s, but lacks its guts. Why can’t any of the new neo-noirs go all the way?

Director Doug Liman and screenwriter John August look back on the production of their indie film Go, 20 years after its release.

Actresses are being lauded for pushing their supposed undesirability to the extreme, and it’s redefining how we see women.

At Vanity Fair, film critic K. Austin Collins explores the shaky “true story” of Green Book, the film by Peter Farrelly starring Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali.

Maybe with Creed II, a black actor will get the Oscar nod instead of the one white guy.

Were early horror films, with their long, angry processions of the undead, repeating the mass trauma of the First World War, or foreshadowing the coming of the Second?

We voluntarily watch horror movies, despite the very real fight-or-flight physical reactions they provoke. Why?

“I think when I found film,” he said, “I found a way — I still hide a bit — but a way to not hide as much. I felt like I could put these things into the work because it’s the movie. It’s not me.”

Adam Skolnick visits director Chris Weitz on the set of his new film, Operation Finale.

The invisible language of film permeates Christian Kracht’s “The Dead,” prose that is neutral and shot through with so much darkness, you occasionally can’t find the light.

Sometimes, the review is better than the film it reviews.

Scorned by stage actors and mocked by the theater-going upper classes, filmmakers nevertheless developed a bold new art form — but they needed better weather.

My friend Sam went back to Brooklyn and his gang of peculiar white buddies watching their endless Stanley Kubrick film festival. I shall not see him again.

Journalists who get screen time are most often men—even when the original story was told by a woman.

The failures of Kathryn Bigelow’s film undercut the fullness, complexity, and beauty of Detroit.

Five stories about movies, for your reading pleasure.

Alamo Drafthouse creator Tim League wants to make moviegoing fun again.

“We have to get rid of the romantic part.”

If it was up to the media, probably forever.

Christopher Orr, film critic for The Atlantic, watched Fifty Shades Darker — the second film in the series based on the super popular Fifty Shades of Gray books — so that you don’t have to.

How Inception changed the way we listen to movies.

Why can’t we let go of Mermaids-era Winona Ryder? Soraya Roberts at Hazlitt explores the last great pre-internet icon.