THE CASTLE OF PURITY
Starting around 1941, the one-armed rat poison manufacturer Rafael Pérez Hernández kept his family of finally seven (six surviving children... View Article
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MULHOLLAND DRIVE
Mulholland Drive has frequently been named the best film of the millennium, and the value of this status is elevated... View Article
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NADJA
It’s the 1990s in wintry New York City. Count Dracula’s daughter Nadja has settled into the city that never sleeps.... View Article
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MY JOY
A body is pushed in a ditch, a mixer-full of cement splashed on top. A bulldozer finishes the operation, rolling... View Article
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MEGAS
Sigurþór Hallbjörnsson, aka Spessi (300 Accordions, 2003; Horse with No Name, 2012), found fame as a photographer but has also... View Article
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LOST HIGHWAY
“Dick Laurent is dead.” These words mark the beginning of an iconically enigmatic trip that, all the way from the... View Article
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LOVE AFFAIR(S)
In the beginning, everything looks simple. There’s Daphne, three months pregnant; there’s Maxime, her boyfriend François’s cousin; and there’s a... View Article
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IN THE FOG
If one has seen The Ascent (Voshoždenije, 1977), Larisa Shepitko’s clear-as-ice vision of the Calvary for victims of war, can... View Article
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EISMAYER
The finest depiction of repressed homosexuality in the military since Beau Travail. That’s some pedigree. While studying at film school,... View Article
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DIARY OF A FLEETING AFFAIR
The brilliant actors of slightly different generations, Sandrine Kiberlain and Vincent Macaigne, play the roles of Charlotte and Simon, two... View Article
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