Review: Fassbinder Gets a Gender-Swapped, Wickedly Funny Update in Peter von Kant
In the 1972 Rainer Werner Fassbinder film The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, the lead character was a female…
Review: Summer of 85 Weaves Death Into a Seaside Love Affair
How can you not love a story of young romance set in a candy-colored beach town in Le Treport, Normandy?…
Dispatch: Chicago Film Festival Wraps 56th Edition with Sold-Out Drive-Ins and Ongoing Virtual Screenings
Though it might be hard to tell without the red carpets and packed movie houses, the 56th Chicago International Film…
Review: Real-Life Scandal Drives Gripping, Devastating By the Grace of God
If the idea of yet another film about the devastatingly rampant child sex abuse scandals plaguing the Catholic church sounds…
Film Review: Frantz, Quietly Devastating
Celebrated French director François Ozon (The New Girlfriend, Swimming Pool, Under the Sand) turns his attention briefly away from France,…
