Once again it is my pleasure and my privilege to be reporting to you from Venice, where the Cinema Biennale, known to the

Last year at the Venice Film Festival, I saw a documentary directed by Matthew Wells called “Frank Capra: Mr. America.” It was engaging,

The conundrums of life are given a rather more conventional depiction in this fictional biographical film, directed by James Marsh, whose reductive work

The movie, written and directed by Levan Akin, begins in the messy, tumultuous house where Achi, a young man who’s for all intents

In adapting Brett’s novel for the screen, director and co-writer (with John Questor) Julia von Heinz omits the Hoss material, possibly wisely, but

“Ryuichi Sakamoto: Opus” is an hour and forty minutes of just that: Sakamoto playing. There is no introduction. There are no interviews. Sakamoto

The movie begins around a campfire, and there are stories being told there. We’re in the company of a nomadic clan, with its

He gets a call telling him he can have a particularly well-paying fare, one that will take him across Paris and back—he’s instructed

In this case, familiarity will not necessarily breed contempt so much as pleasure, and a lot of that has to do with, yup,

“Against the Tide,” a documentary directed by Sarvnik Kaur, depicts environmental disaster with an intimate lens. It begins with a beginning: a ritual