Blood and Tragedy: The Sick Catharsis of Inside
“How can one night go so terribly wrong?”, is the unspoken question posed by many of the most frightening horrorContinue Reading
Tag: France
Crawl ★★½
Creature features have long been a staple of horror and science fiction cinema. Alexandre Aja‘s Crawl is the latest of suchContinue Reading
Portrait of a Lady on Fire ★★★
Painting, like any kind of art, is a personal interpretation of truth. A portrait is as much the painter’s perspectiveContinue Reading
High Life ★★★½
In her most recent venture, director Claire Denis takes us to space in High Life, though she wouldn’t exactly labelContinue Reading
Most Anticipated of May 2019
Alex Sitaras: I’ll get us started with the first film in this month’s Most Anticipated selection, Non-Fiction directed by OlivierContinue Reading
The Films of Agnès Varda
This month we look back at a few of our favorite films directed by the celebrated French New Wave auteurContinue Reading
Most Anticipated of April 2019
Ben McDonald: Though festival season will start to pick up in a little over a month, there are still severalContinue Reading
Climax ★★★½
In a Vice interview Gaspar Noé gave to promote his 2015 erotic romance Love, the experimental French auteur was askedContinue Reading
Most Anticipated of March 2019
Alex Sitaras: I’ll jump right into things and get us started with Us (and a bad joke). Us is JordanContinue Reading
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and the Deterioration of Blissful Ignorance
Jacques Demy’s The Umbrellas of Cherbourg is a coming of age film as much as it is a love story.Continue Reading
