Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey offers up a strangely bloodless vision of Homer’s lively world of men and gods ...

Balls of Fire. This year’s edition of the Italian festival devoted to restored and rediscovered films brought the hea ...

Robert Daniels joins to discuss festival highlights Dao, The Hanging of Stuart Cornfeld, 3 Weeks After, and more ...

Critics Robert Daniels and Guy Lodge join to discuss a pair of buzzed-about Bulgarian films and other highlights from the ...

Read this story as part of the archived issue. After half a century of filmmaking marked by an inordinate number of interruptions, disruptions, and self-imposed exiles, Roman Polanski, now 76, has ...

A handful of films won multiple awards over the weekend as the 2016 Sundance Film Festival came to a close. Nate Parker’s The Birth of a Nation—the story of Nat Turner and the 1831 slave ...

Colonialism has always been the subtext of the Argentine filmmaker's work. In her first documentary feature, it is the text “Martel recognizes that to tell this story, detours will be necessary into ...

It’s all over. Well, not quite, but the 2010s did come to an end on a note of pessimism about the world, and one of resignation about the film industry’s consolidation and glut of choice. At the same ...

Read this story as part of the archived issue. The films you’ve made since beginning Histoire(s) du cinéma are more emotional than anything you’ve done before. Each feels like an attempt at ...

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One of the reliable highlights of Bologna’s Il Cinema Ritrovato festival is its slate of centennial programs. While the major American productions—The Birth of a Nation and The Cheat—were missing from ...

How did you come to Batman Begins, and what appealed to you about rebooting a series that had already been interpreted by Tim Burton and Joel Schumacher? It’s a sign of how quickly things change in ...