“Daisies” (directed by Vḝra Chytilová and written by Chytilová, Ester Krumbachová, and Pavel Juráček), was banned from most theaters shortly…
Browsing: world cinema
A seminal entry in the sub-genre of ugly things happening to beautiful people in beautiful places, Jean-Luc Godard’s “Contempt” is…
During one of the more predictable sequences of drunken meandering and wanton womanizing in Marco Ferreri’s “Tales of Ordinary Madness”…
August 2020. The lives of three young professionals intersect in the post-pandemic lockdown Ibiza where they will try to overcome…
When someone with limitations and impediments makes a decision, do we understand how such small action for us might mean…
Opening at the Laemmle Royal theater in Los Angeles and QUAD Cinema in New York City on February 3rd, “Let It…
The Sundance Film Festival — which concludes tomorrow — has seen a great reception in Park City, its first in-person…
Maziyar Khatam’s short film “Baba,” co-directed by Anya Chirkova and Meran Ismailsoy, begins with a tense situation: Two men who…
Films like “Enough” and “Sleeping with the Enemy,” though good-intentioned, cannot escape the curse of Hollywood-ization. We like to see…
While “La Pecera” (The Fishbowl) may not play with the magical realism it hinted at during its first act, which…