Muscular male bodies warming up under the scorching sun of Southern France abound in “Stranger by the Lake”, Alain Guiraudie’s ode to Hitchcock, Foucault and “Jaws”. The film takes place in an unnamed lake used mainly as a cruising spot for men who s …Read more
On September 1, 2013, representatives of Studio Ghibli announced that Hayao Miyazaki – their founder and most famous filmmaker – would be retiring from directing feature length films after the release of “The Wind Rises”. With every Miyazaki film bei …Read more
Jia Zhang-ke’s “A Touch of Sin” might come as a surprise for those enamoured with the director’s oft-meditative, deeply melancholy observations of modern China. In films like “Still Life” and “24 City” he showed the savage path of capitalism and how …Read more
It’s become custom to sneer at anything actor/director/writer James Franco does because he seems obsessed with doing it all (he’s also a performance artist/philosopher/phd student extraordinaire/queer theorist/satirist among others). His bold perform …Read more
