Much like Critics’ Week (Semaine de la critique) and Director’s Fortnight (Quinzaine des cinéastes) in Cannes, the Currents section at…
Browsing: Film Festival
David Cronenberg loves twins. In “Dead Ringers” (1988), an adaptation of Bari Wood’s novel “Twins” (remade into a 2023 miniseries…
Many international voices remind cinemagoers about legends from the past in many ways. Leos Carax with Jean-Luc Godard. Nuri Bilge…
James Baldwin (1924-1987) would’ve turned one-hundred this year, and in honor of his centennial, museum exhibits abound for the iconic…
The potential for dread and disaster looms over Neo Sora’s “Happyend,” which made its US premiere at this year’s iteration…
A couple decades ago, my friends and I played in a men’s baseball league. We had the youngest team (name:…
Pedro Almodóvar’s elegant and animated artistic vision colors death in bright reds and jagged purples, turning “The Room Next Door”…
The interiors set the mood in “Maria,” the latest gilded-edged biopic from Pablo Larraín. Crisp and sparkling, the look-don’t-touch aura…
It was in 1947 when English writer Malcolm Lowry’s acclaimed novel “Under the Volcano” was published. The book is about…
Published in 2019, Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “The Nickel Boys” boldly reworked the harrowing, scarier-than-fiction true story of the…