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

"Were it not for one showy transition of a camera burrowing through topsoil for a macro-photographic tour of an ant colony, The Human...

105-year-old Portuguese filmmaker (sorry, it's tough not to cite in awe his age) Manoel de Oliveira's superb, haunting Gebo and the...

Nebraska : The above image gets at the heart of Alexander Payne's latest. From the perspective of a television set beaming a Detroit v...

Below is a complete ranking of the films I saw at the 65th Cannes Film Festival. Enjoy! 1. Holy Motors (Carax, France, In Competition) ...

In the pivotal scene of Manoel de Oliveira's meditative, clear-eyed The Strange Case of Angelica , a curious detail emerges. A rural vil...

Pedro Costa's In Vanda's Room is a remarkable, all-encompassing portrait of the Fontainhas ghetto of Lisbon and the people who li...

(This review is referring to a screening at the Harvard Film Archive after which Costa himself spoke.) "I don't like documentari...

Pedro Costa's first look at the lives of Cape Verdean immigrants in the Fontainhas slum is also his first pronounced gesture towards a...