In Gérard Corbiau’s Farinelli, cups and pools of milky white liquid abound. They come in the form of creams and medicines and other things but their significance isn’t clear until nearly the end of the film, when a flashback delivers...
There is a book published in 1991 called A Quiet Revolution that centers around the inspiring work of Guadalajaran born modernist architect Luis Barragán, featuring a collection of material culled from his archives; documents, drawings, and photographs. For the first...
The act of looking back, of examining the past, is a key feature of human consciousness and arguably the primary function of art itself–to render a narrative so we can understand ourselves. As we look back over an incredibly violent...
I know you’re expecting this fable to start in the summer of ’69. After all, that’s when the story you know happens, well, happens. But things started going wrong a bit before and when we first meet TV actor Rick...
To say that Laurel Canyon was a hotbed of musical creativity and innovation in the 60s is like telling you that you are breathing air at this very moment; yes, it is an immutable truth but it’s not necessarily something you’re...
Not since the Overlook hotel appeared on screen has any piece of remote real estate been so ominous and obviously dangerous as the simple, weather-beaten lighthouse on the coast of Maine that sits atop a cragged landscape in Robert Eggers’...
The Turner family, typically blue-collar and traditional (a husband, a wife, a teenage son and a ten year old daughter), are about to try for a more ambitious lot in life when Ricky (Kris Hitchen) realizes that, the way things...
Something threatening hangs over the village of Bacurau, in western Pernambuco. But perhaps no one cares. After all, in the near future, it has been literally erased from the map. When the new film by Kleber Mendonça Filho, this time...
As far as Tarantula‘s Dr. Matt Hastings (John Agar) is concerned, the spider the size of an office building is only the second most confounding thing to stroll into town. What he really can’t seem to get over is the...
In 1990, the late Chilean filmmaker Raul Ruiz conducted and filmed a series of acting exercises over seven days. Stashed away for decades, they were found by Ruiz’s widow and frequent editor Valeria Sarmiento, who edited the footage into (a...
