In You’re Killing Me, absent minded internet celebrity George (Jeffery Self) falls for the handsome but mysterious Joe (Matthew McKelligon) who seems devoted to him to the point that he would kill to spend the rest of his life together. “Kill” is the …Read more
Imagine you find the perfect guy to date, he’s handsome, attentive, funny and pretty much seems to have it all, but he also happens to be a serial killer. That is what happens in You’re Killing Me, a horror/rom-com hybrid starring Matthew McKelligon …Read more
Julie Delpy’s natural qualities as a performer have been evident since she was first cast by Godard at the age of fourteen, but her uneven directorial output continues with Lolo, a strange and sometimes off-putting romantic comedy. Even while she giv …Read more
The term meta seems to have been invented to describe Jane B. Par Agnès V. and Kung-Fu Master!, two works by auteur Agnès Varda that not only engage in an indirect conversation with the audience and their knowledge of the lives of Jane Birkin and Var …Read more
Romantic comedies often suffer from a stifling lack of perspective, asking audiences to identify with the travails of people too beautiful to be single overcome trite obstacles and predictably end up together. It’s a formula Michael Showalter knows w …Read more
Writer/director Chloé Zhao’s Songs My Brothers Taught Me is set in the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, and focuses on the lives of the teenagers who inhabit it. Particularly the Winters children, Johnny (John Reddy) who wants to leave …Read more
An ugly rumor persists about a certain beautiful blonde bombshell who died in the early sixties, and the line-up of mortuary staff whom succeeded in having their wicked way with the dead superstar. There are plenty of necrophilia stories. The odds ar …Read more
From March 4-10, Film Forum will present a 4K restoration of Yasujiro Ozu’s postwar classic Late Spring, the 1949 film centers on the relationship between Noriko (Setsuko Hara) and her widower father Shukichi (Chishū Ryū), an absent minded professor …Read more
Rendez-Vous with French Cinema returns to The Film Society of Lincoln Center with new films by Philippe Faucon, Nicolas Pariser, Julie Delpy, Eva Husson, Catherine Corsini, and many other established auteurs, as well as rising talents. The festival, …Read more
Thirty-five years after starring together in Loulou as the young standard-bearers of French cinema, Isabelle Huppert and Gerald Depardieu reunite in Guillame Nicloux’s reflective grief drama Valley of Love. Playing thinly fictionalized versions of th …Read more