That Old Dream That Moves
At the Cannes Film Festival in 2001 Jean-Luc Godard praised three directors: Samira Makhmalbaf, Aki Kaurismäki, and Alain Guiraudie, whose... View Article
Read more
Nobody’s Hero
Nobody’s Hero is perhaps the most anomalous entry among Alain Guiraudie’s filmography: a satirical comedy woven out of a bedchamber... View Article
Read more
Montparnasse Bienvenüe
Léonor Serraille’s debut feature opens with a hysterical woman. First, this redheaded fury is raging in a stairwell, demanding to... View Article
Read more
Marianne and Juliane
Von Trotta’s powerful political drama brought her into the international public consciousness and solidified her position as a key director in the New German Cinema movement.
Read more
Misericordia
Thirty-something Jérémie returns to the picturesque village of his youth in the south of France to attend the funeral of... View Article
Read more
London: The Modern Babylon
Julien Temple’s epic time-travel journey pays homage to the director’s hometown, but the images of violent fervor bear no resemblance... View Article
Read more
Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten
In 1976 Joe Strummer (1952-2002) founded The Clash, one of the leading bands of the British punk movement. Before his tragic early death, the rock legend began working with Julien Temple on a biopic that would be released five years after his passing.
Read more
Ingeborg Bachmann – Journey into the Desert
Margarethe von Trotta's latest screenplay and directorial effort is a portrait of Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann, a major figure in European modernist literature.
Read more