The multi-hyphenate star of The Christophers and Mother Mary reflects on what it’s like to do it all It was June 2020, three ...

Old and New Beginnings. The critic revisits his years as a Paris and London correspondent for the magazine. by Jonathan ...

Colonialism has always been the subtext of the Argentine filmmaker's work. In her first documentary feature, it is the text ...

I’ve spent the last decade staying away from the films of M. Night Shyamalan. I loved his early ones, even the much-maligned The Village, with its insane double twist and loopy ...

Home truth: the director of Mountains May Depart explains why it's his most personal film yet (and analyzes its Pet Shop Boys anthem) With Mountains May Depart, Jia Zhang-ke turns his powers of social ...

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Although he made one movie about mad love—The Curious Case of Benjamin Button—David Fincher never seemed a director deeply concerned with intimate relationships between women and men. His primary ...

Exploding cinema: the unbridled Id of Toshio Matsumoto’s late-Sixties avant-queer freak-out thrives in a new restoration Toshio Matsumoto’s 1969 film Funeral Parade of Roses is a heady affair, ...

Vox populi: Peterloo shows the perilous struggle behind an 1819 democratic protest for voting rights in an era of crushing inequality Three-and-a-half years in the making, and just about two centuries ...