Tag: biography
Rotterdam 2026 Review: I SWEAR Is The Ultimate Crowd Favorite
This year's winner of the Audience Award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam is I Swear, Kirk Jones' biopic about John Davidson. To say it is a crowdpleaser is an understatement: from hundreds of votes, the film got a mean...
European Film Awards 2026 Interview: RIEFENSTAHL Filmmaker Andres Veiel on Myth, Guilt, Fascist Aesthetics
Drawing on unprecedented access to Leni Riefenstahl's estate, Andres Veiel reflects on the long ethical labour of archival authorship, the filmmaker's complicity with power, and why confronting fascist imagery requires intellectual proximity rather than historical distance.
Echoes: Why Is It Hard to Make a Good Pakistani Film? Is the Asian Market to Blame?
The Pakistani film industry is a budding industry that has a fragile infrastructure, high production costs relative to low box-office returns, and scarcity of screens, which has led the audience to rely more on TV-style narratives. Good storylines in TV...
FYC 2025: Daddy Issues in HAMNET, TRAIN DREAMS, JAY KELLY
For your consideration: Of absent fathers, grief, shame, and forgiveness in three notable films.
SONG SUNG BLUE Review: Loving Impersonation Misses the Real Thing
Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson star in Craig Brewer's music-infused drama, inspired by a true story.
Opening This Week: ANACONDA Bites, NO OTHER CHOICE Hunts Jobs, THE PLAGUE Plunges Into Terror
Plus: 'The Testament of Ann Lee,' 'Marty Supreme,' 'Song Sung Blue,' 'The Choral.'
Camerimage 2025 Interview: SPRINGSTEEN: DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE Director Scott Cooper and DP Masanobu Takayanagi Talk Defying Expectations
A biopic about one of the most famous musicians in rock, Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere avoids the standard life story formula to focus on the trauma of creating the album Nebraska. With Jeremy Allen White as Bruce Springsteen, and...
Now Playing: ETERNITY Romance, HAMNET Grief, WAKE UP DEAD MAN Mystery
Plus: 'Zootopia 2' from Disney, and 'The Thing With Feathers,' coming Friday.
HAMNET Review: Far More Than the Sum of Its Considerable Parts
Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal star in Chloe Zhao's new film.
Now Streaming: PLURIBUS Sci-Fi Mysteries, DEATH BY LIGHTNING Dramatizes History
Plus: 'All Her Fault' soaps up the tension.
Opening This Week: PREDATOR: BADLANDS, DIE MY LOVE, NUREMBERG, PETER HUJAR'S DAY, More
Our new guide to what's opening this week in movie theaters.
Playback: Bill Condon, Spectacle and Secrets from GODS AND MONSTERS to KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN
Bill Condon loves a spectacle, not just for the noise or the glamor, but for the ache that hides behind it. The lonely showman, the fading diva, and the monster who only wants to be seen; Condon tells stories where...
Mill Valley 2025 Review: HAMNET, Oscar Winner Chloé Zhao Directs Heart-Shredding Domestic Drama
Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal star.
THE SMASHING MACHINE Review: Benny Safdie and Company Deliver An Unsparing, Unconventional Sports Biopic
Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt star in Benny Safdie's indie-feeling drama.
New York 2025 Review: PETER HUJAR'S DAY, A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man in 1970s NYC
Ira Sachs' newest film stars Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall.
Toronto 2025 Review: FRANZ Uses a Fragmented, Hybrid Form to Portray Kafka Beyond the Conventional Biopic
Selected as Poland's submission for the Academy Awards, Agnieszka Holland's film approaches the challenge of depicting Franz Kafka through a fragmented docu-fiction form that reflects the author's elusive legacy.
SWIPED Review: Smart Women, Toxic Men
Lily James stars as Whitney Wolfe, who broke in at Tinder and founded Bumble, upending the world of online dating.
THIRTY TWO SHORT FILMS ABOUT GLENN GOULD Blu-ray Review: The Contrapuntal Biopic
Biopics usually follow one of two structures: the majority giving a general, sweeping account of a person's life, with various scenes focusing on 'important' events that would likely already be known by the audience; these are stories or breadth, not...
MISHIMA: A LIFE IN FOUR CHAPTERS 4K Review
Directed and co-written by Paul Schrader (First Reformed, The Canyons, Cat People, American Gigolo), Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, is out now from our friends at Criterion in a gorgeous 4K/Blu-ray combo release. The film is a departure of...
Friday One Sheet: OXANA
There is no point in subtlety in street protest. And the poster for French-Ukranian biopic of Oxana Chatchko aims to confront - in the movie poster context. Swearing, political slogans, and toplessness are all part of activist group FEMEN's modus operandi...
