Ingmar Bergman directed forty films between 1946 and 1982, when he announced his retirement (he’d break this with another three films for television and one theatrical, but what can you do). Across our fair city, twenty-six of those will be...
Note: This review originally ran as part of our AFI Fest 2017 coverage, when the movie had a different title. I nearly missed Claire Denis’s Bright Sunshine In at AFI Fest altogether, but even rushing to make a midday screening...
Noir isn’t just the genre trappings we’re constantly sold; long shadows and dangerous ladies and hardened men. It’s something that digs into the soul and the body and the way we try to live with and apart one another. It’s...
It’s become somewhat inevitable for American directors behind personal, low-key and -budget films to find a foothold in throwback genre cinema to get any kind of foothold at all. David Robert Mitchell followed his sweet teen film The Myth of...
It’s rarely a bad idea to begin a discussion of a film – particularly a French film, particularly an Arnaud Desplechin film – with a word from Godard. Writing in 1950, he posted, “At the cinema, we do not think,...
2018 marks the 100th anniversary of Ingmar Bergman’s birth. Though he died in 2007, his legacy lives on, and I’ll be taking the opportunity throughout the year to celebrate my favorite filmmaker. The headline, as headlines tend to be, is...
It’s time for the BPs! This year, the ceremony is a roundtable discussion between Tyler Smith, David Bax, and Scott Nye. Listen as our hosts discuss the winners, losers, and the films of 2017! Only $1.50!
From the time FilmStruck was announced in 2016, it seemed like a match made in Heaven. TCM and The Criterion Collection – two of the most trusted brands in the business of bringing cinema to your home (and two which...
