What better day than Halloween to review a sequel to perhaps the greatest horror film of all time. No, I am not talking about Halloween and its myriad of endless followups, but rather 1973’s The Exorcist which with 10 nominations including Best Picture (and 2 wins) is still the most nominated horror film of all…
When we speak of “we” as a society, who is being referred to? Who is being left out? That’s one of the prime questions underpinning Lucrecia Martel’s documentary Nuestra Tierra (Landmarks), which just screened at the Camden International Film Festival in Maine, following its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival and North American premiere…
First published in 1942, Albert Camus’ The Stranger — also known as The Outsider — was a popular fashion accessory in the post-punk ’70s, being heavy in content and light enough in weight to carry around in the pockets of the overcoats worn by devotees of the British band Joy Division. That it was what…
Talk about timely. Gus Van Sant returns to the Venice Film Festival for the first time in more than 30 years with an out of competition entry Dead Man’s Wire, which literally looks ripped from the headlines. That is especially true now where the “little guy” feels increasingly cheated by corporate America as witnessed in…
EXCLUSIVE: Decades after her work in Vertigo, Picnic and Bell Book and Candle made her Hollywood’s biggest and most glamorous star, Kim Novak today came back for another closeup as the Venice Film Festival honored her with the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement. The festival is also screening Kim Novak’s Vertigo, a documentary by Alexandre…
Ever since he was a kid Guillermo del Toro has dreamed of making two movies. The first was accomplished in 2022 with Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, which took the Animated Feature Oscar. And now the second, Frankenstein, is upon us, a new adaptation of the classic Mary Shelley novel that the director has been fixated…