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,...

Of stories about immigration and leaving for a better life, on hardship and triumph, these films are the ultimate standout on a family journey to place new seeds in a sometimes unforgiving...

Film noir is a genre that had the aesthetics in the years before the 1940s when a swarm of crime dramas came out that in natural black-and-white, focused on the cynical nature...