Nollywood Never Says Never
Nigeria’s upstart movie industry outstrips its national competition in terms of titles, energy, and worldwide fans. Two documentaries explore how.
View ArticleScenes: POETRY
How does Lee Chang-dong return dignity to an aging grandmother? In the elegant, authentic masterpiece POETRY, it's by stripping her body bare.
View ArticleWhat Hollywood Can Learn from French Actresses
A reader’s guide to Mick LaSalle’s French-actress treatise ‘The Beauty of the Real.’
View ArticleContemplating Pen-ek Rataranuang
'Lonely people tend to like my films a lot. Happy people don't seem to get my films,' says the Thai director.
View ArticleSF Indiefest: Embodiments
The festival brings out a few nuanced (and not-so) portrayals of disability.
View ArticleSouth Korea Beats the Heat with Horror
On the 'goosebumps' cure, from the world that created some of the entertainingly horrific moments of Bong Joon-ho's SNOWPIERCER.
View ArticleMADAME FREEDOM: A Programmer’s Notes on Looking Back and Moving Forward
Revisiting a 1956 melodrama in which South Korean women were able to revel in modern music, clothes and lifestyles for brief moments, establishing their own narratives of possibility on the screen.
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