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If one peruses our 50-title fall movie preview, there shouldn’t be too many surprises for narrowing down what to see in September. But with our most-anticipated film of the entire year arriving this month, along with some early autumn gems,...

It is fascinating what the human mind will allow. Riefenstahl, a documentary directed by Andres Veiel about the life of Leni Riefenstahl, explores the rationalizations the filmmaker allowed herself in order to explain her collaborations with the Nazi Party in...

Fall-festival season invariably crowds-out some of its finer offerings. For all the sturm und drang surrounding a studio’s middling and formulaic awards hopeful, the same festival might screen a blissfully experimental feature that, despite actually achieving something new with narrative...

Few recent films scratch an itch like MEGADOC. Whatever the cinematic value of Mike Figgis’ documentary––and accounting for cheap-looking title cards with obvious typos, low-energy music, maybe not enough done with interview subject George Lucas while cutting out the participating...

Nobel laureate Albert Camus is one of the most consequential thinkers and writers in the French language, having created absurdist characters and worlds that reflect a view on human existence which remains hauntingly unique. His debut novel The Stranger has...