Art Films
Nicolas Winding Refn’s Bangkok-set thriller “Only God Forgives” has taken top honours at the Sydney Film Festival (SFF). A jury of five international and Australian filmmakers and industry professionals selected “Only God Forgives” as the winner of SFF's...
Rialto Films, which specializes in forgotten French films from the ‘50s and ‘60s, has recovered another lost gem, or rather semi-precious stone, in the 1956 comedy of occupied France “A Pig Across Paris” (“La Traversée de Paris”), directed by Claude...
The work of photographer Gregory Crewdson is full of cinematic allusions and references, from 1940’s film noir to the suburban nightmares of David Lynch. So it makes sense that, eventually, the camera would be turned around, making the artist the subject. “...
“I wanna rob,” deadpans a chain-smoking post-Hogwarts Emma Watson in the infectious trailer for “The Bling Ring,” Sofia Coppola’s new movie based on the real-life exploits of a gang of sticky-fingered Valley girls who burgled $3 million in...
The Gold Coast Film Festival (GFCC), Australia’s preeminent pop culture film festival, has launched in Queensland with an impressive program of exciting new pop culture films, gritty crime thrillers, hilarious horror movie spoofs, and world-renowned anime...
“The influence of anxiety” is one way of describing many of the 31 films in the Museum of Modern Art’s impressive “The Weimar Touch” exhibition, which starts next Wednesday, April 3, and runs through May 6. As opposed to a conventional...
Digging up relics from the dustbin of history, Los Angeles-based experimental filmmaker Lewis Klahr makes films that breathe life into the dead images of our past. Comic books, advertisements, mail-order catalogs, and discarded pop songs are repurposed into...
SHANGHAI — When we reach Christopher Doyle over Skype he’s working at his Kowloon Bay studio. “I don’t know if it’s a studio or a closet or a brothel or a repository of dreams – I’m not sure exactly what it is,” he cackles. “I think it’s a possibility, that’s...
A serious movie-goer and longtime partisan of what used to be called the New American Cinema, Richard Foreman has cited the influence of Robert Bresson on his approach to non-acting and the example of avant-garde film practice on his unique...
The great Chilean filmmaker Raúl Ruiz, who died in August 2011, has left as his swan song a chimerically cryptic meditation on approaching death. Playfully elegiac, “Night Across the Street” – the title a simple metaphor for the big sleep –...
