After Carlos and Mesrine, it seems European directors can’t get enough of those those bloody ’70s, that bell-bottomed era of…
The acme of no-budget, Buddhist-animist, faux-naive, avant-pop magic neorealism, Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Uncle Boonmee is a movie in which conversing with…
Like Joan Braderman’s 2009 doc The Heretics, Lynn Hershman Leeson’s lionizing chronicle of the birth, in the late ’60s, and…
Including glimpses of Sleeping Beauty in her glass coffin, the rings of Saturn, and a roadside Texas barbecue, Terrence Malick’s…
Director Michael Winterbottom had so much fun making the 2005 Tristram Shandy with comic stars Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon…
“Your country is the worst shit pile I have ever seen,” César (Hoji Fortuna), an Angolan crime boss, tells a…
A big-bang demolition derby, J.J. Abrams’ much-anticipated, greatly enjoyable Super 8 seems bound for box-office glory. Set in a small…
You know the place: a Neorealist set populated by the young, restless, and dazed of all ages, all living with…
Oliver Tate (Craig Roberts), a rampant 15-year-old only child, has two presiding preoccupations, detailed in rapid voiceover throughout Submarine: a…
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8 Sevdah for Karim 4:30 p.m., SIFF Cinema Ostensibly the story of a tense love triangle that leads…
Eight people venture into the remote woods of northern New Hampshire. Care to guess how many get out alive? This…
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1 Johan Primero 7 p.m., Everett Ritual is at the heart of Johan Primero, a routine but enjoyable…
A plucky young heroine, a mystical quest to save the environment (and a missing father) from callous corporate-military development, and…
A deceptively light time-travel romance, Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris uses fairy-tale devices as a way to get to the…
Famed martial arts choreographer Yuen Woo-ping (The Matrix, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) melds his trademark wirework with gonzo CGI fantasy…
Eight-millimeter home movies and statist hymns from the Soviet past haunt Robin Hessman’s documentary of a contemporary Russia pocked with…
Pierre Thoretton’s documentary opens with unbroken footage from designer Yves Saint-Laurent’s 2002 speech announcing his retirement from fashion, after 40-plus…
Pick a reason to balk at this spot-on, garishly threadbare paean to ’80s no-budget sleaze: It apes a genre that…
WEDNESDAY, MAY 25 [PICK] Perfect Sense 4:30 p.m., Egyptian SIFF honoree Ewan McGregor previously worked with director David Mackenzie on…
This latest blast of unwavering miserablism from Denis Villeneuve, Oscar-nominated and everything, reaches for something deeper than mere stroppy melodrama….
