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Since Criterion have recently launched their own , here's the ORIGINAL Season Of The Cat , presented at SideShow Books Los Angeles in t...

Actor Paddy Considine has been at his most powerful and frightening in the midlands dramas of Shane Meadows ( A Room for Romeo Brass, Dead M...

South Korean extreme cinema was on a roll in the first couple of 21st-century decades, but it was not the sum of the nation’s output; in pre...

  “These kids have nowhere to go and they want to get there at 150 miles an hour”: a familiar plaint, hardly reworked, but given some cult...

It was obvious halfway through that South Korea was walking away with the2010 Santa Barbara Film Festival: funny, sweet Castaway on the Moo...

    Cribbed from Anne Fontaine’s Nathalie (2003) and star-studded with Depardieu, Ardent, Béart, Chloe is Atom Egoyan’s brush with the mai...

It was with some alarm that I heard Ben Mankiewicz declare at a TCM Festival screening, “there’s no better Western than this.” He proceed...

The film divides roughly into three sections across its 3-hour running time and culminates in the infamous 1972 mountain lodge siege, the ...

When I saw this at the Santa Barbara Film Festival, it was introduced to as “crowd-pleasing”, and it was. Kim (Jae-Yeong Jeong) is an inde...

For those unacquainted with the legend of Zé de Caixão - Coffin Joe, loosely - Encarnação do Demônio may prove something of a bafflement....

For all its glib meretriciousness, The Artist prompted thoughts about how silent cinema works, and how and why its techniques might be re...

When the Venice Film Festival awarded Monte Hellman a richly-deserved career achievement Lion last year  [2010] , it was on the occasion ...

Heads were scratched, a couple of years ago, over what to make of Denis Côté's semi/non-documentary Bestiaire (2012). The bulk of the...