“No matter what they take from me, they can’t take away my dignity.” Or can they? Ines (Sandra Huller) dares guests at a party when she belts a Whitney Houston classic in a ballsy, frightfully honest and hilarious scene late in Maren Ade’s Toni Erdma …Read more
Life at times can seem like a series of unending struggles; the struggle to be a providing parent, the struggle to express true feelings, and the struggle to overcome grief. Struggles that never end but subside into temporal moments where we experien …Read more
From December 16-27, Film Forum will present a brand new 4k restoration of Anthony Harvey’s The Lion in Winter. Featuring one of the greatest ensembles in history, led by Peter O’Toole and Katharine Hepburn, the film is one of the most effective exam …Read more
The Ju/Hoansi people are among the oldest indigenous populations in the world, and as such, their customs have fallen out of step with modern societies. Without them knowing about the effects of pollution, global warming and other modern maladies, th …Read more
If The Little Prince married Princess Mononoke, their movie life would be something like The Red Turtle. Not with words or content, but how it might feel. Like French-pressed coffee and Japanese tea alone on a beach, without a morsel of food, not eve …Read more
The Brand New Testament is an aggressively quirky outing from Belgian filmmaker Jaco Van Dormael. Our heroine Ea is stuck in an apartment with her brutish father and meek, abused mother. As it turns out, said father is God, who engineers the world wi …Read more
To commemorate the release of Florence Foster Jenkins on Blu-ray/DVD (December 13, 2016) we spoke to Arthur Levy, the renowned vocal coach (he works with Audra!) who prepared Meryl Streep for her dazzling performance as the New York socialite with a …Read more
Few filmmakers have changed the way we perceive cinema like Martin Scorsese. From his breakthrough Mean Streets, to the operatic beauty of Raging Bull, and the classic Hollywood feel of his majestic The Aviator, he redefined what films were supposed …Read more
With red frosted noses, sleepy bobble eyes, and oversize, oblong heads, the stop-motion munchkins of My Life as a Zucchini are figures approached with curious affection. The trim and snug Swiss-French co-production about an orphaned boy is a moving a …Read more
On August 1st, 1966, a sniper, positioned on an observation tower of the University of Texas, Austin, fired down onto the campus for approximately 90 minutes. Forty-nine people were hit, and sixteen died. Tower, directed by Keith Maitland, is a docum …Read more
