Ma

The award-winning actor highlights performances he admires, including John Hurt in The Elephant Man, Peter Sellers in Being There, and Catherine Keener in Being John Malkovich.

The codirector of Man Bites Dog praises the production design in The Scarlet Empress, the “total magic” of Brazil, and the joys of silent cinema.

The Mountain Goats front man and novelist picked up a few favorite movies and shared his love for Bruce Lee, Laurence Olivier, Toshiro Mifune, and other screen icons.

Jun 10, 2026 — Early reviews of his thirty-fifth feature may be all over the place, but appreciation of the man himself is universal.

Jan 29, 2026 — A resounding critical and popular success upon its release, Héctor Babenco’s adaptation of a literary masterpiece by Manuel Puig was an unprecedented cinematic fusion of a radical politics of sex with a sexual politics of revolution.

Jan 22, 2026 — This visually stunning masterpiece from Kazakh New Wave iconoclast Ardak Amirkulov is one of the few films that looks evil in the eye without flinching.

Oct 9, 2025 — Legendary pop duo Sparks—the fifty-plus-year-long project of brothers Ron and Russell Mael—was formed in 1971. Earlier this year, they released their twenty-eighth studio album, MAD!, via Transgressive Records. Their latest release, the EP MADDER!, was released in October.Very few artists...

Aug 19, 2025 — Vittorio De Sica’s neorealist masterpiece captures the indifference and hostility of the adult world through the eyes of two young boys who share a bond stronger than that of family.

Jun 18, 2025 — Throughout a small but indelible body of work that includes the 1984 neorealist masterpiece Bless Their Little Hearts, the veteran filmmaker has explored how everyday life is lived within structures of power.

Feb 13, 2025 — Isolated sequences are dazzling, but as a whole, The Light may be difficult to buy into.