In his animated feature debut, Zao Xu applies a production designer's precision to a near future fable that examines precarious labor, mediated intimacy and the fragile architectures, both physical and digital, that shape contemporary isolation. [Read the whole post on...
Few subjects constitute a better benchmark than Werner Herzog, who quite literally needs no introduction and to whom I will, accordingly, not grant such. He is presenting his new film, Ghost Elephants, a documentary concerning South African naturalist Steve Boyse...
Herzog discusses the genesis of his new documentary and the urgency of his filmmaking. The post Interview: Werner Herzog on ‘Ghost Elephants’ and Hunting a Dream in the Angolan Highlands appeared first on Slant Magazine.
Following up the wonderful Happy as Lazzaro and La Chimera, Alice Rohrwacher has assembled quite the ensemble for her next feature. Dakota Johnson, Saoirse Ronan, Jessie Buckley, and La Chimera star Josh O’Connor will lead the Italian director’s next film...
After an 18-year hiatus, Lance Hammer makes a remarkable return to the director’s chair following his Sundance Award–winning debut Ballast. For this long-awaited project, he assembled what he describes as his dream cast, led by Juliette Binoche and the outstanding...
NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. BAMThe World of Black Film features Malcolm X, Daughters of the Dust, Set It Off, Black Orpheus, and more. Film ForumSatyajit Ray’s Days and Nights in the Forest begins playing...
“Between 1969 and 1977, Elvis played 1,100 shows, sometimes 3 times a day.” The postscript of Baz Luhrmann’s EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert—the extravagant, divisive Australian wunderkind’s first documentary, and hopefully not his last—says something essential about the late Elvis...
The winners of the 32nd Actor Awards (SAG-AFTRA) will be announced on March 1st. With Oscar voting underway until March 5th, this is the last opportunity we have to see what the industry thinks about the acting categories before the...
As a writer or director of finley crafted, first-rate animated entertainments, Andrew Stanton (Finding Dory, WALL-E, Finding Nemo) has few, if any, equals. Stanton’s only foray into live-action filmmaking, however, John Carter, an adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs' titular character and...