Against all odds three outcasts form a punk band. Klara (Mira Grosin), who acts like the mother of the three, is full of delicious energy, “Brezhenev, Reagan. Fuck off!” she screams. Hedvig (Liv LeMoyne), the only one who can play an instrument, take …Read more

Before Lukas Moodysson began his career as a filmmaker, he had been a published poet and a novelist but he wanted to reach a bigger audience and realized film was the perfect medium for that. The style Moodysson developed is indirectly related to thi …Read more

Against the backdrop of war, mundane events can become miracles.  “Tales From A Forgotten City”  is a series of interviews with the band members of Mostar Sevdah Reunion. Led by the vision of music producer Dragi Sestic, their dream is to revive the …Read more

There is something dark about “Living Things” that benefits from the idea of meat and flesh. This is made significant in the film when Leo, the father-in-law, attempts to murder Rhona, the yoga teacher, who is also his daughter-in-law.  Leo says, “I’ …Read more

Rithy Panh fled his native Cambodia for Thailand in 1979, and soon after his family died in a refugee camp. Panh ended up in Paris and became interested in film. Life under the Khmer Rouge and its legacy became the subject matter of his new life as a …Read more

“The Great Beauty” begins with an epigraph by Louis-Ferdinand Céline: “Travel is useful, it exercises the imagination. All the rest is disappointment and fatigue. Our journey is entirely imaginary. That is its strength.” From the soothing sublimity o …Read more

Three days of improvisational performances by Derrick Adams came as the bookend to a conference called Get Ready for The Marvelous, organized by Performa’s Associate Curator Adrienne Edwards on the topic of black surrealism. The notion that surrealis …Read more