Film Forum
The showiest member of the new Mexican cinema, Carlos Reygadas, is part stuntmeister, part visionary — a wildly ambitious post-Warhol impresario who, often working without a screenplay, seeks out exalted landscapes and orchestrates conditions...
André Gregory is a born storyteller, so much so that an entire film, “My Dinner with André,” was built around his oratory prowess. At the age of 78, you’d think that a person with the gift of gab would run out of things to say, or at least get tired of saying...
Writing of Ang Lee’s “Life of Pi,” the French journalist Marjolaine Gout has described it as “a philosophical tale where Noah’s Ark metamorphoses into ‘The Raft of the Medusa.’” Géricault’s allegorical painting is rendered more literally in “The Pirogue...
Can cinema verité set you free? A home-movie made under house arrest in Teheran, Jafar Panahi’s “This is Not a Film” documents one sort of imprisonment; “5 Broken Cameras,” a modest, first-person documentary produced by Palestinian photographer Emad...
