Saint Laurent, a vibrant, buzzy biopic of the visionary French designer, plays like an extended high fashion ad campaign, prioritizing corporeal movement aided and abetted by shiny textures, music, and distant gazes. Yves Saint Laurent passed away in …Read more

Documentary alchemist Brett Morgen’s Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck provides hardcore fans of the rock legend and casual viewers alike with a vivid, high-energy portrait of a remarkably flawed existence. The film, which marks the first Cobain documenta …Read more

The key to enjoying a film by Quentin Dupieux (with the exclusion, perhaps, of major disappointment Wrong Cops) is to release yourself from logic and settle into a mode of lighthearted, unquestioning viewership. Accepting these parameters allows a po …Read more

South African director Carey McKenzie’s poaching/drug thriller Cold Harbour is an effective, moody film that makes great use of locations, mining popular local attractions – Port of Cape Town, Table Mountain, Two Oceans aquarium, the unfinished Easte …Read more

Winner of the FIPRESCI Prize for First Israeli Film at the 2014 Jerusalem Film Festival, Bazi Gete’s simple, stripped down Red Leaves follows Masganio, an elderly Ethiopian emigrant searching for a suitable new home among his children following his w …Read more

  Austrian filmmaker Sandra Krampelhuger seems beguiled by the vibrant creative community she finds in Dakar, Senegal – ranging from fashion designers, hip-hop musicians, dancers and photographers to graffiti artists and art bloggers – and with …Read more

Big Bird, the six foot tall, sunshine-yellow plumed creature, is perhaps the unofficial mascot and most recognizable entity on Sesame Street, but who is the man inside the feathered suit? David LaMattina and Chad N. Walker’s straightforward documenta …Read more

Maggie is opening in theaters on May 8 (read our review here) and we had the opportunity to hear about it from the people who made it: director Henry Hobson and stars Arnold Schwarzenegger and Joely Richardson who attended a press conference in New Y …Read more

The zombie film genre is primarily made up of stories that follow a group of survivors avoiding infection. Henry Hobson’s Maggie goes against that tradition and features a narrative from the very perspective of the infected. Rather than depict the sa …Read more

After watching Jean Renoir’s The River and Vittorio De Sica’s Bicycle Thieves, a young Satyajit Ray felt compelled to make a film out of Bibhutibhushan Banerjee’s novel Pather Panchali, the first in a series of beloved books by the Bengali author. In …Read more