Speaking about Life of Pi, in which a teenage boy spends many months on a lifeboat in the Pacific Ocean following a terrible shipwreck, Lee remarked in 2013: “Taiwan is like my floating island. It is ...

Life of the mind: many of the films on view through the festival‘s virtual portal ranged from pallid to dismal, but Khalil ...

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As told to Manu Yáñez Murillo. This is an extended version of an article that appears the May-June issue of Film Comment. I first knew about Raúl Ruiz through my father, Luis Alarcón, who was a ...

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A year after delivering, in Beast, one of the few recent portrayals deserving of the term “fearless,” Jessie Buckley ecstatically announces herself as neither an actress who can carry a tune nor a ...

Look and see: a number of films this in year’s selection—including Atropia, The Stringer, and others—grappled with the ethics ...

Inside the dream: the cinema of David Lynch, who passed away in mid-January, is almost unique in its hypnotic ability to ...