John Cassavetes' acting career is in itself highly impressive, having starred in numerous television shows including Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Johnny Staccato, and Burke's Law, as well as noted movies including The Killers, The Dirty Dozen, and Rosemary's Baby. He...

It isn't just North of the border, Europe, or Asia that makes the high-quality films we love. It isn't just Mexico that produces brilliant works and exports film directors to Hollywood. Others...

There are plenty of names out of the melting pot of French cinema after the war that sticks out with massive importance but Robert Bresson is in a league of his own....

We're in the thick of it now. The Oscars. Nominees already announced. Mexico's Roma is the obvious favorite, but it could be Poland's Cold War in an upset; Germany's Never Look Away, Japan's Shoplifters  and Lebanon's Capernaum fill in the...

Pedro Almodovar is in my book among the five greatest living directors in the world and an auteur among auteurs. His films are colorful and full of vibrant characters out of daily...

In November, I was very lucky to have won the National Association of Film Critics (@NAFilmCritics) prize of a copy of Criterion's new release, Orson Welles' The Magnificent Ambersons. I had not seen the film...

James Cameron, Denis Villeneuve, Norman Jewison, Jean-Marc Vallee and Jason Reitman are among of the most notable directors from the North who have succeeded in Hollywood. Of course, there is the countless...

Andrei Tarkovsky made seven feature films before his passing in 1986, aged 54. Yet, in a twenty-odd year career, coming from a country that survived in part because of censorship of religion,...