Toba Singer
Even given transparent formulas for box office success, it’s curious how each filmmaker’s starting point holds out an argument of its own. Ralph Fiennes, who directs and appears in “White Crow,” a film that collects around the idiosyncrasies of ...
Asher Luberto
Early on someone concludes that "No amount of money ever bought a second of time." Wise words indeed. Yet it's also a vertiginous enigma when you consider that this very well could be the most expensive film ever made. ...
Renata PoltSan Francisco,
This year's San Francsico Silent Film Festival starts and ends with film icon Buster Keaton's films: “The Cameraman” on May 1st, opening night; and “Our Hospitality” on May 5th, closing night. The festival, ...
Andrew OsborneBoston,
When it comes to having an idea for a movie, the journey from dream to screen can often takes years (assuming it's completed at all). But the 48 Hour Film Project offers the satisfying experience ...
Andrew OsborneAustin,
The term "festival goggles" refers to the heightened reaction that a movie can receive when seen by viewers surrounded by the stars and filmmakers amid the buzz and excitement of an event like ...
Paula Farmer
German writer-director, Christian Petzold, whose earlier critically acclaimed works include "Phoenix" and "Barbara," delivers a much anticipated adaptation of the novel “Transit” by Anna Seghers, which is the last chapter of the trilogy. As a film, “Transit” is ...
Asher Luberto
The bible figures early on in Jordan Peele's latest magnificently malicious nightmare. A homeless man in tattered rags holds up a sign, not for change in currency, but one ...
Toba Singer
If the phrase “History is written by the victors” has become a truism, here is the film that takes the would-be victor, fascism, and transforms its own records and documents into a mirror of its perfidy. It also stands ...
Andrew OsborneAustin,
On May 23, 1934 in Bienville Parish, Louisiana, the gangster duo Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were (spoiler alert!) ambushed and shot to death (and then some) by a posse of ...
