In 1975 Rithy Panh was eleven years old and living with his family in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, when the Khmer Rouge took over and established a system of horror that would control the government until 1979. Panh and his entire family, along with almost …Read more

“I apologize if my notes are confusing” says Joaquim Pinto at the beginning of “What Now? Remind Me”, an endlessly touching documentary feature in which he chronicles a year in his life while he undergoes treatment for HIV and Hepatitis C. Traveling …Read more

On October 4, 2013, following the United States’ government shutdown a few days before, a man set himself on fire in the middle of Washington DC’s National Mall. While self-immolation has been a form of protest against political inefficiency througho …Read more

In “Gloria” Paulina García gives the kind of performance that would turn anyone into a movie star. The surprise is that she’s a middle aged woman from Chile playing a divorcée who gets back into the dating game. Directed by Argentinean filmmaker Seba …Read more

Nobody does films about teenage life like Fernando Eimbcke. In just three films he’s perfected the coming-of-age story in ways no Hollywood movie has come close to in decades. His sparse, intimate looks at the lives of teenagers are often so real you …Read more

Claire Denis has a peculiar take on justice: she doesn’t seem to believe it exists. In “Bastards”, her first film since the astonishing “White Material”, she portrays her darkest version of the world to date, a place where people have become so corru …Read more

Richard Curtis’ “About Time” has more charm than any movie has a right to have, and because of this, it’s quite easy to forgive it for its many shortcomings. A standard romantic comedy with elements of fantasy and science fiction, the film’s premise …Read more

Catherine Breillat is well known as France’s provocatrice by excellence. Her films are an assault on societal and moral traditions that tend to explore the world through sexuality and the concept of being a woman. However during the past few years sh …Read more

Set in the world of professional dancing, Alan Brown’s “Five Dances” is a beautiful movie about finding yourself once you’re away from home. Broadway dancer Ryan Steele (“Matilda”, “Newsies”) makes his feature length debut as Chip, a young man recent …Read more

At the impressive age of 88, filmmaker Claude Lanzmann has the ability to muster more forceful passion than people six decades younger. In 1985 he released “Shoah”, a mammoth account of the Holocaust that took him eleven years to complete, the film w …Read more