Tag: history
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.
Friday One Sheet: FIUME O MORTE!
In his review from Rotterdam (where the film won the FIPRESCI Prize & Tiger Award), our own Martin Kudlac described Fiume O Morte! as, "A playful, warning look at history [...] an exploration of collective memory and the reconstruction of historical narratives at...
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.'
Criterion in March 2026: Tsui Hark's THE BLADE, Martin Scorsese's KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON, More
Springtime -- specifically, March 2026 -- brings many good gifts for home video enthusiasts from The Criterion Collection, beginning with Tsui Hark's superlative action epic The Blade (1995) in 4K (?!). I love the official description, so allow me to...
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.
NUREMBERG Review: Nazis Are Bad, Allies Are Good
Michael Shannon, Rami Malek, and Russell Crowe star in James Vanderbilt's stolid historical drama.
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.
New York 2025 Review: TWO PROSECUTORS, Hell Is Legal Evil
Sergei Loznitsa's film stars Alexander Kuznetsov.
Mill Valley 2025 Review: HAMNET, Oscar Winner Chloé Zhao Directs Heart-Shredding Domestic Drama
Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal star.
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: NUREMBERG, Holocaust Courtroom Drama Fails to Justify Its Existence
Russell Crowe, Rami Malek and Michael Shannon star in James Vanderbilt's historical drama.
Toronto 2025 Review: THE WIZARD OF THE KREMLIN Whispers the Secrets of Russkiy-Mir
Vadim Baranov was an artist among politicians, and a politician among artists during the tumultuous times of the late 20th century and early 21st century Russia. The son of a high ranking Soviet academic (who burned out and faded away...
CHIEF OF WAR Review: Battling for Hawaiian Peace and Unity
Jason Momoa, Luciane Buchanan, Temuera Morrison, and Cliff Curtis star in a spectacular action-adventure series, set on the islands of Hawaii before the palefaces arrived.
HARVEST Review: The Knowing and the Naming
Do places and living things (be there plant or animal) derive their power and importance from their naming, or simply by being. Who has stewardship and what does ownership mean to a place and its people. We live in a...
Fantasia 2025 Short Film, Short Review: BARLEBAS
Shot in lush and misty black & white, with superbly framed large-canvas photography, and truly exceptional production design, Malu Janssen’s Barlebas is a 20-minute short of a literal witch-hunt. One which perfectly balances the epic and the intimate, the tender and...
