Film Review: ‘Blue Is the Warmest Color’ and the pain of...
There is a lot of noise surrounding this year’s Palme d'Or-crowned Blue is the Warmest Color. As it finally hits theaters in the U.S., it...
Film Review: 'Camille Claudel 1915' – madness and the deprived artist
French director Bruno Dumont works in an elliptical manner. Though he consistently works with powerful visuals, his work requires an audience with an open...
Film Review: 'Capital' presents soul-crushing portrait of CEO life
Let’s face it, it’s hard to sympathize with anyone inhabiting the world of the one-percenter. It’s no surprise then that legendary filmmaker Costa-Gavras gleefully...
Paradise: Hope offers poetic capper to trilogy of humanist discomfort
For his final film in the “Paradise Trilogy,” Paradise: Hope, the most stunning aspect of director Ulrich Seidl's fifth feature film is that he shows...
Vive la France! Five essential French New Wave films
The French New Wave (or La Nouvelle Vague) stands as one of the most productive movements in French cinema history. Characterized by focused, human stories...
Film Review: 'Escape From Tomorrow' can't rise to witty premise with...
A witty premise informs the low budget black-and-white science fiction / corporate conspiracy thriller / family dramadey Escape From Tomorrow. A flawed--- some might call...
Film Review: ‘Gravity’ harnesses the power of uncut images to thrilling...
Movies like Gravity are the types of films routine visitors to the multiplex live for. Director Alfonso Cuarón's first film in seven years feels fresh...
Film Review: 'After Lucia' holds unflinching lens to bullying
A bold and important film debuted in Miami during the Miami International Film Festival in March that only recently found a distributor. The Miami...
Book Review: Marisha Pessl brings together Literature, Social Media and Film...
With her creative take on fiction writing, Marisha Pessl takes us on a journey of discovery alongside investigative reporter Scott McGrath. Initially not the...
Film Review: 'Cutie and the Boxer' looks beyond art for the...
There’s something gorgeous about a documentary on a notable art couple that can transcend not only their celebrity but also their art to offer...