Beyond the frame: films by Anocha Suwichakornpong, Ross McElwee, and Bani Khoshnoudi open lines of flight into the shared ...

Michael Koresky is the senior curator of film at the Museum of the Moving Image, and a member of the National Society of Film Critics. He frequently writes for the Criterion Collection, and hosts and ...

ROGER CORMAN: I started originally as a mes­senger at Fox. I came out of Stanford as an engi­neer, worked four days and quit. The only way I could get into the business was a messenger. I worked ...

Time is a formidable enemy in Cristian Mungiu’s 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, and thus it’s appropriate that its scenes, shot in handheld cinemascope, are built around prolonged, pitilessly unblinking ...

There’s nobody on this set who’s got a bigger dick than he does. Whatever he wants, he gets. —a Milagro production assistant. Even in this remote location, Robert Redford can’t escape the glare of the ...

If Satyajit Ray was the suitable boy of Indian art cinema—unthreatening, career-oriented, reliably tasteful—Ritwik Ghatak, his contemporary and principal rival, was its problem child. Where Ray’s ...

What is black and white, in color, and somewhere over the rainbow? That has an angel orchestra, a pork chop orchard, and is just like L.A., New York, Chicago, or Miami? The answer is heaven. And ...

Alice Guy was not merely the first woman filmmaker; she was in fact an authentic motion picture pioneer both in the expansion of a film aesthetic and in the development of the new art’s technical ...

SKOLIMOWSKI: It is my most sensory feeling that I try to represent in my films. It is what I can touch. Concrete. This is what I think and this is what I take under consideration. The moral criteria ...

“I just came from Deep River, Ontario, and now I’m in this dream place,” says Betty, the absurdly naive and optimistic young actress whose downward trajectory is the emotional and narrative center of ...

Set in the filmmaker’s hometown of Khon Kaen, the story primarily follows an aging Thai woman, Jen (Apichatpong regular Jenjira Pongpas Widner), who volunteers at a clinic to tend to comatose soldiers ...

Classical Hollywood fetishism has found a most enchanting ambassador. Farran Smith Nehme of The Self-Styled Siren turns the articulation of cliché and convention into a sport—no surprise she’s chosen ...