Friday, October 17, 2025

In Sweet Bean compassion heals all wounds – a film review

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Sweet Bean is a deeply moving depiction of true friendship and a lesson on how to appreciate life through the world around us -- including...

Yorgos Lanthimos, director of The Lobster, talks finding filmmaking freedom in...

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Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos, probably one of the most distinctive voices in that already distinctive cinema scene that Greece has produced in recent years, did something special...

The Lobster offers brilliant satire of the corrupted expectations of human...

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Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos burst onto the International film scene in 2009 with the disturbing, Oscar-nominated family drama Dogtooth. There was no way it...

Love & Friendship exposes the limits of manners in civility with...

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American indie writer-director Whit Stillman returns with what may be one of the funniest movies to ever be sourced from 19th century English literature. Stillman...

Sunset Song expresses the loveliness of impermanence in one of this...

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"There are lovely things in the world. Lovely that don't endure and the lovelier for that." The line is uttered more than once in...

In The Measure of a Man actor Vincent Lindon commands screen...

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With a title like The Measure of a Man, French writer-director Stéphane Brizé sets up the audience to consider a summary judgement. What makes...

Jesse Eisenberg on coming to work with Joachim Trier and the...

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Louder Than Bombs, the first English language film by Norwegian writer-director Joachim Trier reveals a different side of the director who gave us the low-key...

Mountains May Depart presents beautiful meditation on hope misplaced — a...

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After the rather rich but violent A Touch of Sin, China’s Jia Zhangke returns with something more intimate though no less critical of his country’s...

River of Grass captures snapshot of disaffected Gen-Xers in South Florida...

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From its awkward sense of humor to capturing parts of nondescript South Florida that no longer exist, there are pleasures to be found in...

Miami-born Director Kelly Reichardt talks about finding inspiration in her hometown...

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  Writer-director Kelly Reichardt recently premiered Certain Women at Sundance, where it was picked up by IFC Films for U.S. distribution and Sony for worldwide release....