Close Your Eyes | NYFF 2023
By Guillermo Lopez Meza October 14, 2023
After three decades, Spanish director Víctor Erice returns with an elegy to cinema.
Festivals
The Zone of Interest | NYFF 2023
By Guillermo Lopez Meza
Jonathan Glazer’s new film is an essential addition to the representation of the Holocaust, and one of the best films of the year.
Strange Way of Life/The Human Voice | NYFF 2023
By Kent Turner October 3, 2023
Pedro Almodóvar’s 31-minute Western-cum-queer-love-story is on a double-bill with The Human Voice.
Shayda | TIFF 2023
By Kent Turner September 19, 2023
Australia’s submission for the Best International Feature Film Academy Award.
Flora and Son | TIFF 2023
By Kent Turner September 15, 2023
With a main character spouting piss, spit, and vinegar, as well as raunchy talk, John Carney’s latest has an edge—and an R rating.
The Teachers’ Lounge | TIFF 2023
By Kent Turner
Ilker Catak’s pressure cooker drama has been chosen as Germany’s Best International Feature Oscar submission for 2023.
Viva Varda! | TIFF 2023
By Kent Turner September 14, 2023
Pierre-Henri Gibert is the first director to take on the biography of maverick filmmaker Agnès Varda, apart from Varda herself.
In the Rearview | TIFF 2023
By Kent Turner September 12, 2023
In the week of Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine, director Maciek Hamela sits behind the steering wheel as a volunteer transporting displaced refugees fleeing the frontlines.
The Boy and the Heron | TIFF 2023
By Kent Turner September 10, 2023
Without a doubt, the 82-year-old Hayao Miyazaki pulls out all stops visually in perhaps his most beautiful movie.