Whit Stillman and I reconsider my negative review of ‘Damsels In...
In the second part of my conversation with filmmaker Whit Stillman (this is continued from: A cup of coffee in which director Whit Stillman and I...
Miami International Film Festival 31 on sale today for general public
Today is the day tickets for films at the 31st Miami International Film Festival go on sale to the general public. The opening night was about a...
Watch the Sundance-selected, Miami-made short “The Sun Like a Big Dark...
It's been a while since I first saw the short film "El sol como un gran animal oscuro" or "The Sun Like a Big...
A re-cap of a hectic half-attended, still impressive Miami International Film...
The Miami International Film Festival has just wrapped up another year of quality film premieres. Film for film, it may have featured the highest-quality...
My Golden Days explores the distorting filter of time with keen...
“I am not Ulysses. No nostalgia for my country,” says the anthropologist Paul Dédalus (Mathieu Amalric) to a lover in Greece. With a title...
The Nightingale makes revenge unsettling
There hasn’t been a movie this year that has so consistently moved me as much as the violent, horrifying revenge film The Nightingale. A...
Lively Q and A made for interesting screening experience on Day...
Though I only made it to one film yesterday at the Miami International Film Festival, it proved a memorable screening due to the fact...
Dheepan winds inner turmoil with tense intimacy — a film review
Shadows obscure life throughout Dheepan, in the drudgery of scraping a living together from nighttime street vending to cleaning out dank common areas in a French...
The best films of 2015 … so far — by Hans...
We are a bit past the halfway point, and the lists of what are so far the best movies of 2015 are already popping up. Here's...
Film Review: 'The Hunt' examines influence of the crime on judgement
As one can expect from the director who made a name for himself with the Celebration, Thomas Vinterberg’s the Hunt (Jagten) feels like a brutal roller coaster...