The ghost of Jean-Luc Godard looms large over cinema, especially French cinema, so it’s fitting I was watching François Truffaut’s…
Author: Kevin Parks
Kevin Parks
Kevin is a freelance writer and film critic who lives in New York. His favorite director is Robert Altman and he dearly misses Netflix's delivery DVD service.
Water really is everywhere in Elena López Riera’s “El agua.” And, just as in the Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem, water’s…
Adaptability is the reason for a coyote’s survival. According to National Geographic, coyotes will eat anything — mice, lizards, insects…
Literary adaptations are having a moment. In 2021, four of the year’s most acclaimed films — “Drive My Car,” “The…
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On the set of Brian De Palma’s “Casualties of War” (1989), Sean Penn reportedly would taunt Michael J. Fox, calling…
This Father’s Day, we’re presenting a list of screen dads who don’t necessarily fit the ideal of a model father.…
There’s no hero quite like a Werner Herzog hero. In both his fiction and documentary films, Herzog has profiled ambitious,…
Fitting that it was a John Ford film that gave us the line, “When a fact becomes legend, print the…