The Sin

Sep 10, 2018 — Hopes were high in Venice this year, and for the most part, they seem to have been fulfilled.

May 16, 2018 — Workers and management face off in a French factory, and the reviews are so-so.

Apr 16, 2018 — Just before the release of her new film You Were Never Really Here, Lynne Ramsay spoke with us about her early moviegoing life in Glasgow, the version of herself that emerges on set, and the mind-expanding power of chess.

Mar 18, 2018 — A24 is setting up an adaptation of Richard Wright’s 1940 novel Native Son, reports Deadline’s Mike Fleming Jr. “Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks has written the script and celebrated conceptual artist Rashid Johnson will direct the film, which will take...

Sep 30, 2017 — Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun? premiered at Sundance in January as a live presentation, with, as Vadim Rizov notes at Filmmaker, director Travis Wilkerson “narrating a complex mixture of slides and video onstage.” Wilkerson will be on hand...

Jul 25, 2017 — Albert Brooks brings the gift for comic deconstruction he honed in his stand-up career to this uproarious satire of baby boomer values.

Jul 13, 2017 — “Martin Scorsese is putting the band back together,” writes Anita Busch, breaking the news at Deadline that “Joe Pesci has officially joined Al Pacino (whose deal is currently being finalized) and Robert De Niro in Scorsese’s Jimmy Hoffa disappearance film...

May 31, 2017 — Director Terry Zwigoff shares his own musical taste in this article about how he went about selecting songs to underscore the deadpan tone of his cult comedy Ghost World.

Aug 30, 2016 — Set in nineteenth-century Macao, Orson Welles’s adaptation of a classic tale by Isak Dinesen is a hypnotic meditation on the pitfalls of storytelling.

Apr 26, 2016 — “It is not an exaggeration to say that before Primary, documentary as we know it today—the art of candid observation—didn’t exist,” writes Thom Powers.