Deemed “one of the greatest of all films” by Roger Ebert, director Kenji Mizoguchi’s 1953 signature film (made only three years before his untimely passing) is the story of two […]

Until recently, Mexican-born actor-director-producer Eugenio Derbez was mostly unknown to those outside of his massive Latino fanbase. I suspect though that the 54-year-old comedic giant is at the beginning of […]

On Friday, University of Chicago’s Film Studies Center presents a screening of Deborah Stratman’s The Illinois Parables, a 60-minute film essay on the Land of Lincoln, from the seventh century through […]

On the 30th anniversary of the Oscar-winning Best Foreign Language Film (as well as its Cannes  Film Festival Palme D’Or win), Pelle the Conqueror has been given a stellar 2K […]

If you’re paying any kind of attention to the career of Richard Gere (and you still should be), you’ll notice that every couple of years, he comes up with yet […]

Although not technically a found footage film, Phoenix Forgotten is a faux documentary that includes a great deal of found footage, which is a step in the right direction for […]

If your taste for a love triangle set against a horrific war hasn’t really been satiated since Doctor Zhivago, then there’s a chance you’ll enjoy The Promise. From director Terry […]

The details don’t really matter, but if you can keep up with who is where in this giant Boston warehouse and who is shooting at who, well that only makes […]

Director James Gray has always made movies about perpetual outsiders, people who are living and existing in places far away from where they were born and grew up. He’s dealt […]

Like most of the DisneyNature films released once a year around Earth Day, there isn’t much to say about them beyond the fact that they are visually stunning efforts in […]

A bit on the dry side and a darling at the recently ended European Union Film Festival, Cézanne et Moi, the latest work from writer-director Danièle Thompson (La bûche, Avenue […]

I will never fully understand films that contribute to the deification of golf or other sports. In certain books but especially in cinema, golf is treated as if its players […]