On the best of NYFF, including Memoria and The Power of the Dog.
A counterpoint on Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain from a hardcore Bourdain fan.
A Sundance 2019 dispatch featuring reviews of "Dolce Fine Giornata," "Divine Love," "Monos," "Queen of Hearts."
A review of new films from Paolo Sorrentino and Jason Reitman.
The 20 films world premiering at the Toronto Film Festival that you can expect to find covered here over the next week, among many others.
A report on the opening day press conference for Cannes 2017 and the premieres of "Ismael's Ghosts" and "Loveless."
A video preview of this year's Cannes Film Festival!
A review of Paolo Sorrentino's "The Young Pope," starring Jude Law, Diane Keaton and James Cromwell.
Fellini's major but overlooked "Roma" has received an excellent restoration by the Criterion Collection.
A review of Fox Searchlight's "Brooklyn" and "Youth."
An overview of the films that will be theatrically released in the 2015 fall season.
A table of contents of Cannes 2015 coverage by Barbara Scharres.
The table of contents of Cannes 2015 coverage by Michał Oleszczyk.
A guide to the latest Blu-ray, VOD, and streaming options, including "Fifty Shades of Grey," "American Sniper," and "Blackhat".
A report from Cannes 2015 on the latest films from Paolo Sorrentino, Shin Su-won and Hou Hsio-hsien.
A review of Paolo Sorrentino's latest from Cannes.
A curtain raiser for the 2015 iteration of the Cannes Film Festival.
Pablo Villaça offers his perspective on "The Great Beauty."
Marie writes: As the dog days of summer slowly creep towards September and Toronto starts getting ready for TIFF 2013, bringing with it the promise of unique and interesting foreign films, it brought to mind an old favorite, namely The Red Balloon; a thirty-four minute short which follows the adventures of a young boy who one day finds a sentient red balloon. Filmed in the Menilmontant neighborhood of Paris and directed by French filmmaker Albert Lamorisse, The Red Balloon went on to win numerous awards and has since become a much-beloved Children's Classic.
Alexander Payne's "Nebraska" brings black and white, to the competition, while "Omar" delivers moral shades of gray to the Palestinian/Israeli conflict and "Michael Koolhaas" looks good in the long shots, but needs more emotional subtlety.