Daniel (Martin Loeb) lives a very pleasant life. He grows up in the French countryside, under the care of his loving grandmother (Jacqueline Dufranne), where he spends his day engaging in beautifully reckless childhood activities with his coterie of friends. He is a young man who enjoys the simple pleasures in life because that is…

“Taking pictures is a way of proving things. Waiting for the image to develop, I was often filled with a strange unease. I could hardly wait to compare the picture with reality. But comparing them wouldn’t reassure me either. As the still images were always overtaken by reality“ Reality is one of the most pivotal…

In the pantheon of great cinematic artists, there are few that can hold the prestige and pedigree as Ingmar Bergman, whose reputation as one of the finest filmmakers to ever work in the medium is undoubtedly and thoroughly earned – over the course of a career that lasted half a century, he blazed a trail…

Rick Alverson truly embodies the idea of outsider art – his films have digressed so far from anything even remotely understandable or normal, and extend further from the very definitions of independent filmmaking, defying even the most transgressive of filmmakers. Yet, his work is always so astute and brilliant and demonstrates an individual with one…

The 1940s, Hungary, during the height of the Holocaust. Maximilian Theo Adolfer (Dirk Bogarde) is a Nazi prison guard stationed at one of the notorious extermination camps, where he masquerades as a doctor, as a way of satiating his perverted desire for voyeuristic dominance by invading the personal space of the prisoners by photographing them…

Memory is a powerful tool when telling a story. Joanna Hogg knew this, even though she has admitted that she didn’t trust her own memories, hence why her autobiographical feature film, The Souvenir, was gestating for over thirty years, and only came into palpable existence this year. What specific impetus lead her to portray her…

“Mabel’s not crazy. She’s just…unusual” These words come on behalf of Nick Longhetti (Peter Falk) after one of his co-workers provokes him on a very sensitive subject. Mabel, of course, refers to Nick’s wife (Gena Rowlands), a housewife who does her very best to provide for her hard-working husband and three children, despite the fact…

Lenny Bruce was an influential individual. Without him, there would not have been the likes of George Carlin, Richard Pryor or Bill Hicks, which in turn would mean comedy would have been very different, and probably far less important a force than it is now. Don’t let the preoccupation with jokes mislead you – comedy,…

Hong Kong is a city of a million and one stories. We encounter two of them. A mysterious killer (Leon Lai) stalks the city at night, engaging in his job as an effective hitman, eliminating various people who unfortunately fallen on the wrong side of the influential underground figures that run the city, and dictate…

Benilde (Maria Amélia Matta) is an innocent young Portuguese woman who discovers something that sends everyone she knows into shock – somehow, she managed to become pregnant. Her explanation doesn’t make this news any less difficult to comprehend, as she believes that the baby was the product of divine intervention, with the young woman, who…