Up, Landmarks, and The Voice of Hind Rajab pierced through the festival’s illusive bubble with lightning bolts of reality ...

The lay of the land, in the Seventies film, is that there are two types of structure being practiced: dispersal and shallow-boxed space. RAMEAU’S NEPHEW, McCABE AND MRS. MILLER, CELINE AND JULIE GO ...

Break like the wind: the legendary British rockers are joined by their longtime creative foil, filmmaker Marty DiBergi, to discuss their long, loud career ...

Foreign PickBoris Barnet's magical 1936 By the Bluest of Seas is one of the glories of Soviet cinema and, despite the director’s slowly growing reputation, unfortunately still too little known. The ...

Outer LimitsMysterious and soulful, Virgil Vernier’s debut fiction feature has its eyes on the night skies and its feet firmly planted on concrete. Somewhere in a Paris banlieue backcountry of ...

Within moments of meeting a woman on a train, Norman Oppenheimer offers—unsolicited— to introduce her to three prominent people. That’s how Norman operates: he’s a “fixer,” a seemingly well-connected ...

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Back in the day, Tucson photographer Bob Broder used to string for The Arizona Republic. Eric Kroll, another local—and former Taschen book editor—recently unearthed a stash of negatives Broder shot on ...

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(Darren Aronofsky, U.S., 2010)Early in Black Swan, artistic director Thomas Leroy concludes his personal synopsis of Swan Lake with the declaration that only in death does its troubled heroine find ...

(Yojiro Takita, Japan, 2008)The members of the Academy who gave Departures its Oscar must be feeling their mortality. The movie tells the story of a second-rate cellist who loses his job when an ...