The pre-credit prologue to the first episode of the final season of Girls in 2017, directed by Lena Dunham and...
In both Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960) and William Friedkin’s Cruising (1980), characters compulsively journey to the lower depths, to an...
Felisberto Hernández was a celebrated Uruguayan writer who died four years before the production of Au hasard Balthazar in 1966....
In 1956, the 36-year-old film critic and budding filmmaker Éric Rohmer went wild over an American Western, Anthony Mann’s The...
What are the films that most formed us in earliest childhood? There are usually not cinephile classics or masterpieces; they...
Spoiler alert: at the end of the second season of the New Age mystical fantasy TV series The OA, a...
Every fan of Robert Mitchum has praised his looks, his walk, his voice. Yet, beyond these natural, “cool” attributes, Mitchum...
Jean-Pierre Melville’s first film, Le silence de la mer (1949), is an adaptation of a novel by Vercors, published clandestinely...
Philippe Garrel’s Elle a passé tant d’heures sous les sunlights… (1985) is full of Warholian, performative scenes based on the...
