‘Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn’ by Romania’s Radu Jude is perhaps the most daring of the 15 movies vying for the Golden Bear’s top prize on Friday at the Berlinale
Fey and Poehler managed their typically well-timed back-and-forth despite being almost 3,000 miles from each other, appearing before masked attendees but no stars. Instead, the sparse tables – where Hollywood royalty are usually crammed together and plied with booze during the show – were occupied by, as Fey phrased it, ‘smoking-hot first responders and essential workers.’
Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige reflect upon their new feature, a pre-COVID lockdown film, an accessible story that revisits their contemporary art
Every time Anthony leaves a room, he re-enters to find the light has shifted, the furniture rearranged. Sometimes even the people are different. In staging and perspective, “The Father” mimics the disorientation of dementia
Based on Jessica Bruder’s book about the invisible casualties of the modern economy, Chloé Zhao’s extraordinary ‘Nomadland’ follows Frances McDormand’s Fern,...
The entrance of Peter Dinklage immediately recalibrates the movie, as he often does, as Roman summons his dark forces – minions who cower before him while he...
Tahar Rahim’s masterful central performance achieves something his big-name costars – Jodie Foster and Benedict Cumberbatch – do not, presenting a...
Perhaps to account for the lack of glamour in 2020, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association heaped nominations on two lavish period pieces of high royalty –...
For exhibition curator Eugenie Tsai, KAWS’s characters manage to be light-hearted but also melancholic and introspective. They ‘resonate with all of us in...
In his quest to track down the last of Afghanistan's antique rugs, Chari Allahqul has weathered high-country blizzards, suffered beatings from armed robbers,...
Composer Cynthia Zaven discusses how financial, political and public health crises inspired her to revive a 15th-century form
Warner Music Group has invested in Rotana Music, the Middle East's largest record label owned by Saudi Arabia's billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, Warner...
Few poets of the past 60 years were so well known, or so influential. His books sold more than 1 million copies worldwide, a fantasy for virtually any of his...
‘I want to thank all of those along my journey who have helped keep the music fires burning bright,’ read Corea’s last message. ‘It is my hope that those who...
Questlove, who made his directing debut with ‘Summer of Soul (...or When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised),’ about the largely forgotten 1969 Harlem...
The footage in this sequel to 2010’s ‘Life in a Day’ is more personal than political. Macdonald’s favorite clip is a Robinson Crusoe-esque man who recorded...
Located at the very edge of an archipelago in one of western Sweden’s most barren and windswept locations, ‘The Isolated Cinema’ is only accessible by small...
‘I was just like, ‘Yo, is it that easy just to erase our history? Is it that easy, in a snap? Could it just be lost?’ That was the number one thing in my...
A first in-competition film to stream for remote attendees of the indie film festival, ‘CODA’ drew immediate rave reviews, with Variety calling it ‘tender,...
The first four episodes explore the power of volcanoes, sunlight, weather and oceans, respectively, getting up close and personal with some of the world’s...
Ben Wheatley made ‘In the Earth,’ a horror film set in the pandemic, over the summer. Carlson Young shot her fantasy-horror thriller ‘The Blazing World’ with...
There’s also opportunity in the fact that there could be a bigger and more diverse audience seeing the films who may never have had the opportunity to attend...
Eliza Hittman’s ‘Never Rarely Sometimes Always,’ a Pennsylvania’s teen’s odyssey in getting an abortion, racked up nominations for best feature film, best...
With the Oscars delayed to their latest-ever date – April 25 – several top contenders have not been released or even screened for critics yet, meaning...
As Sudan undergoes a precarious political transition, the country’s filmmakers have found more space to operate. Young filmmakers act ‘without the complexes,’...
The success of the French crime series "Lupin" on Netflix, riding on the heels of hit Spanish show "Money Heist," may hint at a waning of US dominance on the...
The film rigorously examines and subverts Hollywood (and Bollywood) stereotypes of Indian life. If “Slumdog Millionaire” gave us the musical version of...
It's still not time for "No Time to Die.
‘Locked Down’ is inevitably, and intentionally, of the moment, but so much Hollywood movie-making is laboriously preordained these days that this off-the-cuff...