Receiving the Best Actress award at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival for her role in Abbas Kiarostami’s Certified Copy, Juliette Binoche held up a sign bearing the name of Kiarostami’s frequent ...

Your voice on the phone is much younger than it is in the movie. Actually it's different from any of your movie voices. It depends on what character I'm being this week, but it's usually just the same ...

Louis Feuillade’s Les Vampires, Galway Film Fleadh, Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan, Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket and Lolita, Godard in the Nineties, Todd Solondz ...

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While Shohei Imamura may not be a forgotten figure in the history of Japanese cinema, his docudrama A Man Vanishes (67) only received its U.S. theatrical release last November, while his other ...

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Oliver Laxe’s fourth feature, Sirât, is the French-born Galician director’s first film to premiere in Competition at Cannes, where it’s been a highlight of the 2025 festival’s first week. A singular ...

By Grady Hendrix in the March-April 2020 Issue Perpetually out of step, Shinya Tsukamoto goes where his gut leads him, handcrafting freaked-out sci-fi nightmares from 8mm, 16mm, 35mm, digital video, ...

Was a teenager’s bedroom always a sanctum sanctorum, all color-coordinated and walls plastered with posters, ironic road signs, and cut-out photos—or did some savvy Hollywood art director dream up ...