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Across the River and Into the Trees Review: A Slight, Stoic, Skillful Hemingway Adaptation
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In early 1950, Ernest Hemingway’s Across the River and Into the Trees was serialized in Cosmopolitan magazine before being published as a novel in September of that same year. It was panned. Hemingway was reportedly stung by the negative reception....
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‘Reagan’ Review: President or Saint? This Biopic of the Gipper Can’t Tell the Difference
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The film’s treatment of its subject is belligerently hamfisted, disingenuous, and incurious. The post ‘Reagan’ Review: President or Saint? This Biopic of the Gipper Can’t Tell the Difference appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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Caleb Landry Jones Leads First Trailer for Athina Rachel Tsangari’s Harvest
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Returning almost a decade after her last feature Chevalier, Greek director Athina Rachel Tsangari is back this year with Harvest, which is coming to Venice, TIFF, and NYFF. Shot by Sean Price Williams and starring Caleb Landry Jones, Harry Melling,...
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ARROW Player in September: Adam Green Selects, TORSO, Vampires And Monsters Signal The Changing of Seasons
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Summer is coming to a close and life returns to normal after months of vacations, excursions and more than enough livations.   Our collective attention now turns towards spooky season, some of us starting a two month celebration, starting on...
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MUBI’s September 2024 Lineup Includes Raúl Ruiz, My First Film, Simone Barbés & More
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MUBI is exactly the service for people who see Mysteries of Lisbon is streaming and ask “yes but what version?” Accordingly I’m excited that September brings the extended, miniseries cut of Raúl Ruiz’s late-career triumph, which arrives alongside the notable...
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Locarno Review: The Seed of the Sacred Fig is a Shape-Shifting Thriller Where Iranian Protests Manifest in the Family Home 
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Here’s a film that asks, in the vein of another’s title: did you wonder who fired the gun? Yet in Mohammad Rasoulof’s The Seed of the Sacred Fig, which is set concurrently against Iran’s Jina (Women, Life, Freedom) protests, the...
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HORROR’S GREATEST Review: Shudder’s New Original Docu-Series Debuts Today
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Shudder’s newest survey series, Horror’s Greatest, starts streaming today on the platform and the next four weeks. Over the course of five episodes an array of experts, from filmmakers, actors, academics and such, weigh in on five categories. They are,...
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Venice Film Festival 2024: Prepping for the Biennale
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A look at the upcoming Venice Film Festival, the kickoff to Fall Fest Season.
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Locarno Film Festival 2024: Wrap-Up of a Special Event
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Locarno isn’t a film festival. It’s a pilgrimage. My journey to the legendary festival, which celebrated its 77th edition this year, involved planes, trains, and automobiles to land in Milan, Italy before crossing the border into Locarno. The odyssey felt...
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Albert Brooks Enriches Criterion Collection with “Real Life” and “Mother”
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The Criterion Collection may have surprised some collectors when they announced last May that they would be releasing two Albert Brooks movies on their label in August: “Real Life” and “Mother.” “Real Life” was not a surprise. An HD treatment...
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