Los Angeles Goes to the Movies: Our Top Films
It all comes together in Los Angeles: a city impossible to imagine without remembering scenes and images from films, a city simultaneously manufactured and…
Berlinale 2018 Review: Notes on an Appearance
Ricky D’Ambrose’s riddling feature Notes on an Appearance is possibly a detective story about a young man’s disappearance in New York, or a series…
Classical Period: An Interview with director Ted Fendt
There should be a cinema of reading whose sole generic requirement be that it contain lengthy shots of people reading either to themselves or…
Berlinale 2018 Review: Victory Day
The place is the Soviet War Memorial in Berlin’s Treptower Park. The day is May 9, 2017, the 72nd anniversary of the Red Army’s…
Berlinale 2018 Review: Transit
Hell is an eternal waiting room: so goes the basis of the parable that underlies German auteur Christan Petzold’s new remarkable film Transit. Based…
Berlinale Roundup: Our Top 7 Unmissable Films
The 68th edition of the Berlinale is kicking off next week at Potsdamer Platz with a program sure to capture the attention of even…
Ruben Östlund Retrospective in Berlin
On Friday 8th May 2015, the Berlin Film Society kicked off its two-day retrospective of Swedish award-winning filmmaker Ruben Östlund at the Hackesche Höfe Kino…
Books at Berlinale: Storm Sisters
Amidst the general craziness of the Berlinale and the frantic running around from screening to screening, it might be easy to overlook “Books at…
Ixcanul: An Interview with Director Jayro Bustamante
Guatemalan director Jayro Bustamante is at the Berlinale this year with his debut feature, “Ixanul Volcano” – a soothingly slow, sensitive film about a…