I once took a ride in a small car with a sunroof. My head touched the ceiling — a common problem for a tall guy like me — but otherwise, I was comfortable. It never occurred to me that I might be in any danger. And I didn’t sense anything unusual when the breeze became […]
David Bordwell spreads the word: Kiarostami’s latest is magnificent. Shocking, I know.
Noah Baumbach casts Ben Stiller in a new project.
Hayao Miyazaki’s essays: Now in English.
In Times and Winds, we follow three children who are trying to cope with their difficult parents, their changing worlds, and their own turbulent adolescence. Their adventures play out in the Turkish village of Kozlu, a landscape alive with color and clamorous with the bells of livestock, a place as punishing as it is beautiful. All three live in fear of the adult world. … And there is no wonderland of wild things into which they can escape, no benevolent Totoro to lift their spirits.
Few films in my moviegoing experience have conveyed the hardships of growing up with such piercing eloquence.
In this interview, Jeffrey Overstreet discusses his novel “Auralia’s Colors” and examines the way in which artists are compelled to “look closer” at the world, to “discover and reaffirm why things were put that way in the first place.”
There’s a scene in Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s film Distant that most moviegoers will relate to. At the end of a long day, a man slumps onto his comfy chair and turns on a movie. It’s a slow-moving, challenging art film by Andrei Tarkovsky (cinephiles will recognize it as Stalker). The man watches it for a while, […]