As Francis Ford Coppola’s masterpiece hits the half-century mark, it’s time we stared a little harder at the men the film celebrates. Because heroes they’re not.
A concentration camp survivor is incarcerated for decades for his sexuality in this nonlinear film with a remarkable performance from Franz Rogowski.
In this quiet masterpiece, Ryusuke Hamaguchi considers grief, love, work and the soul-sustaining, life-shaping power of art.
The only difference between this film and a classic paranoid thriller like The Conversation is that now everyone is perfectly aware that they’re being listened to at all times.
Films from Tantura to Descendant challenge the powerful. But it’s still up to us to witness the truth. The past can’t be changed. But if we won’t tell the truth about it, we can’t learn from it. We can’t even understand ourselves.
Two-time Oscar winner Asghar Farhadi hits home once more with this complex tale of a debtor who tries to make good.
A new documentary film recounts how Hampshire College students and alumni rallied to save their renowned 60’s-era experimental college from its own scheming administration.
“Prayers for the Stolen” shines a much-needed light on the consequences of Mexico’s war on drugs, specifically highlighting the plight of the nation’s women and girls. The film is a contender for an Oscar for best International Film.
The scariest thing about Don’t Look Up is that absurd as it is, it barely exaggerates. Much of our political elite are just as greedy and foolish, our media just as vapid, and our response to impending disaster exactly as mind-bogglingly irrational.
Amid Cold War paranoia, J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI set its sights on a potential source of communist subversion: Frank Capra’s Christmas classic It’s a Wonderful Life.
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