‘MLK/FBI’ Poses Complex Questions Without Easy Answers (NYFF58)
Can we judge a man’s character through the eyes of his enemies? How do we honor the legacy of a hero while understanding him as a human being? These are
The intersection of filmdom and feminism
Can we judge a man’s character through the eyes of his enemies? How do we honor the legacy of a hero while understanding him as a human being? These are
“How are they still awake?” I asked as I came to the end of Steve McQueen’s sumptuous and confounding Lovers Rock, the opener of the 58th New York Film Festival
There are puzzling, mystery movies that are fun to try to solve, and then there is Tenet. Christopher Nolan‘s latest mind-bending sci fi flick uses explosions, expository dialogue and quick
One of the most remarkable aspects of Leontine Sagan’s Madchen in Uniform is its time period, appearing in Germany in 1931, at the beginning of the rise of the Nazis
To understand a society, watch its films. Germany during the rise of the Nazis still had a film industry, controlled by a central propaganda machine that decreed what films could