A new biography of the maverick director sheds much needed light on the radical filmmaker’s life, politics, and remarkable ...

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2026, 232 pp. How does one generate empathy for an ecosystem? This was the challenge that many science-fiction filmmakers took upon themselves in the first ...

In his work and life, Berger grappled with the ways in which we see the world can offer solutions and salves for political ...

Nigerian-born, U.K.–based brothers Arie and Chuko Esiri announced themselves as filmmakers to watch with their 2020 debut feature Eyimofe (This Is My Desire), a subtly observed, woozily beautiful ...

Invigorated as I was by the conceptual prowess of Jane Schoenbrun’s Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, my one major reservation is that I simply didn’t have that much fun—at least not as much as I ...

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1) Yorgos Lanthimos is in talks to direct an adaptation of The Hawkline Monster. The novel, a “gothic western parody” by Richard Brautigan, has been on the cusp of production for years—first as a Hal ...

During Poland’s many years under different occupying powers, Polish mothers came to serve as the preservers of the culture, carrying on traditions, history, and the native language at home. The idea ...

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When late last year the word made the rounds that Lav Diaz’s 482-minute A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery had been selected for competition in Berlin, the question immediately arose: how would they ...

Colonialism has always been the subtext of the Argentine filmmaker's work. In her first documentary feature, it is the text “Martel recognizes that to tell this story, detours will be necessary into ...

What it's like for a girl: Deniz Gamze Ergüven crafts an inside view of the sheltered life for a band of sisters in Turkey In July last year, Bülent Arınç, Turkey’s deputy prime minister, gave a ...