Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s movies defy content summary or easy genre categorization. To describe them as surreal or dreamlike is just part of the process, since you never know who is doing the dreaming. In this film, it might be Jessica (Tilda Swinton), a Scottish expatriate living in Colombia, or it might be alien visitors, the filmmaker, […]
R.M.N.: Romanian Cristian (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days) Mungiu’s Tale of Immigrants, Racism, and Bigotry (Cannes Fest 2022)
August 30, 2022 by
Cannes Film Fest 2022–R.M.N., a densely layered social parable from director Cristian Mungiu, the director of Cannes Palme d’Or winner, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days.
Politics 2022: Mikhail Gorbachev, Eighth and Final leader of Soviet Union, Dies at 91
August 30, 2022 by
Mikhail Gorbachev, the Russian politician who served as the eighth and final leader of the Soviet Union, has died at the age of 91.
Oscars 2023: Poland Chooses Skolimowski’s Fable EO as its Contender for Best Internation al Feature Oscar
August 30, 2022 by
Polish filmmaker Jerzy Skolimowski’s latest movie, which won two awards at Cannes Fest, follows the adventures of a nomadic mule in Poland and Italy.
Bring Your Own Brigade: 2021 Best Films–Lucy Walker’s Seminal, Harrowing Documentary about Rampant Wildfires (Social Probem, California)
August 30, 2022 by
Bring Your Own Brigade: 2021 Best Films–Lucy Walker’s Docu This harrowing documentary about California wildfires is also, almost by accident, an exploration of the country’s polarized, chaotic, self-defeating response to the Covid pandemic. The picture Walker paints is both complex and complicated, partly because that’s the way human nature is, and that’s the way (unfortunately) […]
