Like Francois Truffaut’s Jules and Jim, Dominik Graf’s film Beloved Sisters tells a story of a decades-long love triangle over a backdrop of European turmoil. Beloved Sisters takes its characters from history, but the story is not one of definite rec …Read more

Stephanie Chuat and Veronique Reymond’s first feature The Little Bedroom is a quiet narrative about loss, set against the imposing Swiss mountains near Lausanne. It is a straightforward, serious tale that savors the value in exacting realism. As thei …Read more

Set in sunny Greece during the early 1960’s and based on a novel by Patricia Highsmith, The Two Faces of January will at first make you think of Anthony Minghella’s adaptation of The Talented Mr. Ripley, but while the latter turns into a full blown, …Read more

Few, if any, contemporary artists provoke the intense reactions elicited by Björk. The Icelandic eccentric has built an entire career on polarizing elements that have ranged from orchestral trip-hop to whole albums made using only human voices and gu …Read more

“Someday we’ll all need interpreters to understand the words coming out of our mouths.” This line from the middle of Jean-Luc Godard’s latest film Goodbye To Language has a certain humor coming on the heels of the uproar his last film caused, by rele …Read more

Few storytelling devices are more tried and true than simply throwing some characters in a room together and locking the door, but that’s because it’s undeniably effective. By not allowing people to get up and leave, a film can create a pressure cook …Read more

The Skeleton Twins opens with a suicide attempt by Milo (Bill Hader), who is saved because he left his stereo blasting Blondie so loudly that his neighbors complained. His sister Maggie (Kristin Wiig), who hasn’t heard from Milo in ten years, receive …Read more

Director Terry Gilliam has stated, “when I made Brazil in 1984, I was trying to paint a picture of the world I thought we were living in then. The Zero Theorem is a glimpse of the world I think we are living in now”. A spiritual companion in more tha …Read more

Asia Argento’s Misunderstood is a coming-of-age film that more often than not relies on extreme stylization which sadly takes away from the heart of the story. Argento, is the daughter one of the most influential iconoclasts of horror cinema, and her …Read more

In The Guest, Dan Stevens doesn’t simply shed his Downton Abbey persona; he kills it, pours gasoline on it, sets it on fire and then sends it in a rocket to the moon. Stevens plays David, a dashing soldier that knocks on the door of the Peterson fami …Read more