Violet directed by Bas Devos is set in a city that’s under constant surveillance. With cameras everywhere, and guards monitoring our lives, one would think that, among all the reasons for surveillance, we’d also be safer. But tragedy strikes in the b …Read more
C.C. Baxter (Jack Lemmon) fights to get even a single decent night’s sleep in his own apartment. His problem: he’s got a great apartment in New York City and all the top executives at his workplace want to use it to conduct their extramarital affairs …Read more
Just based on the title of Alex Gibney’s Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, it seems fairly obvious which side of the story he’s setting out to tell, and while an impressive amount of investigation went into this telling, the film vee …Read more
Gaspar Noé was born in Argentina in 1963 and moved to France when he was eleven. Regarded as a tremendously original and expressive filmmaker, like many a good artist, his work has caused some controversy, largely for its violence. But Noé is a maste …Read more
Having made a handful of great films in the past, Polish born director Pawel Pawlikowski has gotten more press lately than ever before thanks to his Oscar-winning film Ida. Pawlikowski studied philosophy at Oxford, pursed filmmaking part-time through …Read more
Films from the Middle East, at least the ones that make it all the way to North American audiences, have a stylistic flair and a certain unpredictable exoticism. These films gives glimpses into societies that are worlds away, countries that are mostl …Read more
Bitcoin started out as an amusing experiment for the tech-savvy, but its scope soon widened. It is now on its way to becoming a serious player in world economics; not only that, Bitcoin has humanitarian potential, especially for the large majority of …Read more
Jean- Paul Belmondo is one of the greatest actors in history, and anyone who has seen even a handful of French films from the 1960s has likely seen him in action. His early work enthroned him as a figure central in the French New Wave movement. Early …Read more
Set in N’Djamena, Grigris sparks a striking discourse on life in the African country of Chad. The idea for this film was born when director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun discovered Souleymane Démé, a killer dancer with a crippled leg dancing in a club. Around …Read more
Throughout the month of August, the Museum of Modern Art will screen three landmark films as part of their Auteurist History of Film, which in the past has included titles like Jaws, Annie Hall and Barry Lyndon. This month, MoMA Film centers its atte …Read more
