Film

Maura Delporo's period feature set in a remote Italian village with a large cast of characters, has heart but not enough soul.

From Venice Film Festival, a first look at Pablo Larraín's biopic about the legendary opera singer Maria Callas, the third instalment in the director's unofficial trilogy of misunderstood icons of the 20th century.

We pay tribute to the great French actor who left an indelible mark on cinema and pop culture.

With new features from Pedro Almodovar and Luca Guadagnino, Todd Field's Joker: Folie à deux and Pablo Larrain’s portrait of Maria Callas, here are the unmissable films at this year’s festival.

Few Indian films have made an impression on global cinema like the two-part crime epic Gangs of Wasseypur. Few Indian directors have made such an impact, either— changing the way their cinema is understood both at home and abroad. Writing for A Rabbit’s Foot, Anurag Kashyap describes the influences and experiences that led to his sweeping gangster story.

The prolific filmmaker Sidney Lumet would have turned 100 this year. Although not as famous as Spielberg or Scorsese, Lumet made significant contributions to American cinema with iconic films like 12 Angry Men, Serpico, and Network. PK Fellowes explores the director’s origins, and charts an influential filmic oeuvre that explores moral dilemmas and societal decay.

Mapping onto a rising real-life demographic, a new fleet of emotionally attuned single parent films, from The Florida Project to Janet Planet, is exploring the gap between parental responsibility and freedom.

Seijun Suzuki was a maverick of Japanese cinema who served as the antithesis that noir should inherently be rooted in the real world. Though he was a company man for Nikkatsu, it was his tempestuous collaborations with the production studio that inadvertently birthed one of Japan’s most bold anti-establishment auteurs—a playful renegade with a knack for the absurd.

The Swedish director discusses Crossing, an undulating tale of a retired Georgian woman's search for her trans niece in Istanbul.

Filmmaker Isabel Sandoval explores the crossroads between desire and memory in the cinema of Wong Kar-wai, particularly his 1990 film Days of Being Wild.