The New York Times – Film:
Hans-Jürgen Syberberg’s surreal film collage was a cause celebre when it reached the United States in 1980. It’s a fascinating contrast with current Holocaust dramas.
Author: Beatrice Loayza
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‘Driving Madeleine’ Review: A Nonagenarian in Paris
The New York Times – Film:
The beloved French singer Line Renaud plays a woman who forms an unlikely bond with a surly cabdriver in this heart-warmer.
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‘The Three Musketeers’ and the Joy of Old-School Blockbusters
The New York Times – Film:
With its practical effects and broad-minded approach to story, the French franchise revives the pleasures of earlier movie spectacles, but with a Gallic twist.
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‘The Crime is Mine’ Review: Courtroom Tango
The New York Times – Film:
In this showbiz screwball, an aspiring actress and her lawyer best friend spin a murder accusation into a shot at fame.
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‘Our Son’ Review: The Right to Break Up
The New York Times – Film:
A simple yet engaging melodrama, starring Billy Porter and Luke Evans, explores what it means for two fathers to divorce.
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‘The Sweet East’ Review: All-American Girl
The New York Times – Film:
Starring Talia Ryder and Simon Rex, this shape-shifting satire about modern American subcultures is a curious, and occasionally delightful, object if you can handle its flippant treatment of taboos.
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‘Smoke Sauna Sisterhood’ Review: Women, Uninterrupted
The New York Times – Film:
In Anna Hints’s bewitching documentary, Estonian smoke saunas beget a sweaty purification process — one that’s revealed to be more than skin deep.
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‘The Strangler’ Review: All the Pretty, Pitied Corpses
The New York Times – Film:
This strange, seductive film from 1970, directed by Paul Vecchiali, borrows the conventions of the serial-killer thriller and turns them inside out.