Benita may not have left a note when she took her life, but her archive was a kind of trail — what I call a “filmmaker’s ...

Documentary filmmaker Lynn Sachs on her latest, “Every Contact Leaves a Trace,” in which she remembers seven life-altering ...

Mario Patrocínio’s Maria Vitória is the writer-director’s first narrative feature, but it brings the chops of his documentary ...

Andres Veiel’s “Riefenstahl” is an arresting and deeply disturbing all-archival portrait of the titular Third Reich ...

In 2021, the Tokyo International Film Festival decided to leap out of mediocrity. It was, acquaintances told me, previously ...

The nonprofit Sundance Institute today announced in a press release details for the 2026 Sundance Film Festival’s annual ...

Originally published February 27, 2024, just following the Berlin International Film Festival, this interview with No Other Land‘s directors Basel Adra and Yuval Abraham is being republished today, as ...

Alex Winter and Tom Stern’s 1993 cult classic Freaked is less an example of “high” and “low” art commingling than of pop- and-sub-cultures colliding. At the precipice of marquee fame after headlining ...

“Long live the new flesh.” The most famous line in any Cronenberg picture, uttered by Videodrome’s Max Renn (James Woods), is also something of a mission statement for much of the Canadian master’s ...

One of our most prolific independent American filmmakers, Richard Linklater, now has two new movies in release. Nouvelle Vague and Blue Moon are both evocations of transformative moments ...

Writer-director Avalon Fast discusses her sophomore feature CAMP, which centers on a group of “gorgeous misfits” working at a Canadian summer camp.