Thursday, April 11, 2024
A strikingly incompatible Marianne Faithfull and Alain Delon star in Jack Cardiff’s fascinating and bizarre biker film from 1968.
Marianne Faithfull as Rebecca in The Girl on a Motorcycle…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, April 4, 2024
Back to the fear of the future: in Bertrand Bonello’s time-skipping film, the tragedies of love and fate can never be left behind.
George MacKay as Louis Lewanski and Léa Seydoux as Gabr…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, March 7, 2024
Roid-raging against the machine: lez lovers embark on a path of vengeance in Rose Glass’s second film.
Katy O’Brian as Jackie and Kristen Stewart as Lou in Love Lies Bleeding. C…
SOURCE: 4columns at 07:00PMThursday, February 29, 2024
A young Salvadoran immigrant in New York City navigates cryogenics, art-world shenanigans, and challenges both real and surreal in Julio Torres’s debut feature film.
Julio Torres as A…
SOURCE: 4columns at 07:00PMThursday, February 15, 2024
Liberté, égalité, gastronomie: Juliette Binoche and Benoît Magimel star in Trân Anh Hùng’s latest film.
Juliette Binoche as Eugénie and …
SOURCE: 4columns at 07:00PMThursday, February 1, 2024
For those who come to San Francisco . . . David Schickele’s docufiction portrayal of a young Nigerian, a city, and an epoch.
Paul Eyam Nzie Okpokam as Gabriel and Elaine Featherstone as A…
SOURCE: 4columns at 07:00PMThursday, January 18, 2024
Of family and fauna: a young protagonist at the center of Lila Avilés’s latest film navigates a day of domestic chaos and festivities.
Naíma Sentíes as Sol in Tótem. Courtesy Film For…
SOURCE: 4columns at 07:00PMThursday, January 11, 2024
In Chantal Akerman’s newly restored 1982 film, lovers unite and separate over the course of one summer night in a series of mysterious vignettes.
Still from Toute une nuit. Courtesy Colle…
SOURCE: 4columns at 07:00PMThursday, December 14, 2023
In Andrew Haigh’s latest film, close encounters of the
metaphysical—and X-rated—kind.
Andrew Scott as Adam and Paul Mescal as Harry in All of Us Strangers. Courtesy Searchlight Pictu…
SOURCE: 4columns at 07:00PMThursday, December 7, 2023
Habeas coitus: Yorgos Lanthimos’s new film about a Frankensteinian
lady-baby misses its feminist mark.
Emma Stone as Bella Baxter and and Mark Ruffalo as Duncan Wedderburn in Poor Things…
SOURCE: 4columns at 07:00PMThursday, November 16, 2023
Bradley Cooper conducts a moving new Leonard Bernstein biopic.
Bradley Cooper as Leonard Bernstein in Maestro. Courtesy Netflix. Photo: Jason McDonald.
Maestro, directed by Bradley Cooper,…
SOURCE: 4columns at 07:00PMThursday, November 9, 2023
Moleskine Notes on a Scandal: in the latest film by Todd Haynes, one woman’s past is another woman’s future.
Natalie Portman as Elizabeth Berry and Julianne Moore as Gracie Atherton-Yoo…
SOURCE: 4columns at 07:00PMThursday, October 26, 2023
If Graceland’s walls could talk: Sofia Coppola’s new biopic
reveals little of the King’s queen.
Cailee Spaeny as Priscilla in Priscilla. Courtesy A24. Photo: Sabrina Lantos.
Priscil…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, October 12, 2023
To know or not to know: in French director Justine Triet’s new film, there may be no solutions to the mysteries of marriage and death.
Samuel Theis as Samuel Maleski, Sandra Hüller as Sa…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, September 28, 2023
On a road to nowhere? A new restoration of Jonathan Demme’s 1984 Talking Heads documentary.
Lynn Mabry and David Byrne in Stop Making Sense. Courtesy A24. Photo: Jordan Cronenweth.
Stop …
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, September 21, 2023
Naked and unafraid: the unsung Corman-protégé’s search for sexual freedom within the exploitation genre.
Celeste Yarnall as Diane LeFanu in The Velvet Vampire. Courtesy the American Gen…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, June 29, 2023
But does company love misery? A self-absorbed novelist attempts to finish his new book among vacationing friends in Christian Petzold’s latest film.
Thomas Schubert as Leon, Paula Beer as…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, June 22, 2023
Paris verité: a 1981 neo-noir film about street life in the Pigalle district marks the directorial debut of French New Wave actress Juliet Berto.
Jean-François Stévenin as Willy, Robert …
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, May 25, 2023
Where there’s a willy there’s a way: João Pedro Rodrigues’s new film about climate collapse, Portugal’s colonial past, and homoerotics in the firehouse.
Mauro Costa as Alfredo and …
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PM 
