"For all its natural beauty and genuine sense of surprise, however, this is a film handicapped by Igorrr’s uniquely terrible music, a...

"With Happy End , Michael Haneke takes circuitous routes to arrive at rather simplistic observations—namely, that modern technology i...

"Like In the Shadow of Women , Lover for a Day is shot in widescreen black and white by Renato Berta, staged in a prosaic suite of b...

"In prior efforts, Serra has shown a penchant for degrading his iconic subjects and passing the result off as humanizing historical r...

"This principle of elimination—why provide surplus aural and visual stimuli when two or three pieces of information will do?—informs ...

"In 1956's Lust for Life , Vincente Minnelli captured Vincent van Gogh's antisocial mania and his harum-scarum dealings with ...

"In the blighted canon of documentaries about directors, A Guy from Fenyang has nothing of the hagiographical cheerleading or predet...

" Fantastic Planet 's blend of straightforward, almost elementary storytelling (any missing context is filled in via a voiceover ...

"A muddy, trash-lined path snakes up a mountainside 18,000 feet about sea level in La Rinconada, Peru—the highest human settlement on...

"The history of artists working away from their homeland is rich with tales of creative flowerings: wide-eyed Paul Gauguin dispatchin...

"In a hushed sequence in the penultimate installment where one character begins to explain the 'dangerous things' Colin has g...

"If Cemetery Without Crosses feels subtly but unmistakably different than other westerns, that's because it is: It's the lon...

"[Rohmer's] unaffected style recalls what Bazin once said of Erich von Stroheim’s direction: 'Take a close look at the world,...

"Most of Diplomacy is a two-handed chamber drama restricted to a pressurized hotel suite leased by the German occupation, a half-lit...

The New York Film Festival is back in business for its 52nd year, and while I sadly am not able to attend this time, I was happy to be abl...

Tonight's the last night to check out Catherine Breillat's latest, Abuse of Weakness , in Boston. Therefore, I apologize for the l...

""Genius," "poet," "the essence of cinema," and "the shooting star of French cinema" constitut...

For the lucky souls in New York right now, Alain Guiraudie's The King of Escape screens until Friday at Anthology Film Archives. The s...

Full disclosure: Jimmy P. is the first Arnaud Desplechin film I've seen, so I wasn't able to weigh it against the French director...

I spent a welcome chunk of the past weekend with the work of French experimental filmmaker Nicolas Rey, who made a stop in Boston on his b...