Few filmmakers have as varied a CV as Richard Linklater’s. From the box office hit School of Rock to his experiments with rotoscope, he...
Festival
Refreshingly unexpected, Dag Johan Haugerud’s Dreams (Sex Love) — the first Norwegian film to win the Berlinale’s Golden Bear — breathes new life into...
Lives are literally on the line in Vivian Qu’s genre hybrid Girls on Wire, a surprisingly gritty study of people left behind or living...
Memories can’t be cancelled. The Boltanski family never celebrates significant dates, even their own birthdays; according to the narrator who leads us into this...
The Hong Sangsoo universe has always orbited artists of one stripe or another — wandering filmmakers, poets, and other writers, some more erratic than...
There are shades of Peter Bogdanovich’s 1973 Depression-set comedy Paper Moon in Argentinian director Iván Fund’s melancholy road movie The Message. Aside from crisp...
There can’t possibly be a more timely film in the Berlin Film Festival lineup this year than Kateryna Gornostai’s Timestamp, an extraordinary deep-cover documentary...
If there is a cinematic equivalent of the theatre of cruelty, it must be the reigning spirit of Austrian cinema. Films by Michael Haneke,...
Opening a film with a line of poetry is always a problematic way to start: the words are quickly forgotten once the visuals begin,...
Romanian hell-raiser Radu Jude won the 2021 Golden Bear in Berlin with the anarchic Covid-era call to arms Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn,...
