foreign
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The Creator of the Jungle (Hot Docs review)
The Creator of the Jungle tells the story of Garrell, a man who has spent 45 years building...
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The Reunion
Anna Odell’s The Reunion is split into two distinct halves, each half appearing to be directly inspired by...
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The Wind Rises
Following his recent announcement of a retirement from directing, it’s difficult to ascribe any thoughts to Hayao Miyazaki’s...
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Le Week-End
If the success of films such as The Best Exotic Marigold, Hotel, Quartet, and Philomena have proven anything, it’s...
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My Brother the Devil
My Brother the Devil, director Sally El Hosaini’s first feature length film, takes us deep into the heart...
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Grigris (SF Indiefest)
Director Mahamat Saleh Haroun spends no time establishing the main draw of Grigris' title character; in the opening...
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Jeune & Jolie
Following the well-received In The House, François Ozon returns with yet another voyeuristic character study with Jeune &...
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Big Bad Wolves
If you’ve heard of Big Bad Wolves, it’s could be because of Quentin Tarantino. Late last year he...
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Reaching For the Moon
An examination of Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet Elizabeth Bishop’s pivotal years spent in Brazil in the 1950’s and...
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Everyday
Michael Winterbottom is a director who’s not afraid to fully commit himself to an idea that he likes....
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The Selfish Giant
After making the incredibly devastating pseudo-documentary The Arbor, Clio Barnard has returned with her own original story for...
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Here Comes the Devil
One could say that Here Comes the Devil opens with a bang. Literally. The opening scene is striking;...
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Paradise: Hope
The last installment of the Paradise trilogy is Ulrich Seidl’s Paradise: Hope, a coming-of-age film about a teenage...
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Faust
Aleksandr Sokurov’s 2011 film Faust, screening now at New York City’s Film Forum, is essentially a story of...
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A Touch of Sin
The opening of Jia Zhangke’s A Touch of Sin shows a conversation communicated entirely with violence. A migrant...