Reviews
Is This Thing On?
Months ago, while having dinner with a producer-turned-director friend, who had just directed a debut film selected to open an ...
Wicked: For Good
EVEN MORE WICKED The phenomenon generated by Wicked, the 2003 Broadway musical based on the novel Wicked: The Life and ...
A House of Dynamite
THE CURSE OF THE THIRD ACT Eight years had to pass before Kathryn Bigelow directed another feature film. Detroit was ...
Weapons
THE MONSTER IS US The figure of the unknown, the abnormal, the other; extremely peculiar concepts that serve to extrapolate ...
The Brutalist
Brady Corbet (Vox Lux) is a young director (36 years old) with barely three feature films to his credit, including ...
The Marching Band (En fanfare)
TWO WORLDS THAT MUSIC JOINS Director Emanuel Courcol already made a film, A Triumph with Kad Merad. His third feature ...
A Fascinating book. About Quentin Tarantino’s “Cinema Speculation”
The abundance of information, opinions, references and anecdotes contained in Cinema Speculation (2022), Quentin Tarantino’s most recent book, make for ...
María Callas
“The function of art is not, as is sometimes assumed, the transmission of ideas. It is the dissemination of thoughts, ...
Emilia Pérez
Emilia Pérez is a bizarre film, yet extraordinary in every sense. First, its French director, Jacques Audiard, had visited Mexico ...
Dahomey
There are unknown universes and cultures that the West regards with amazement and considers exotic. One of these worlds is ...
Megalopolis
FROM SELF-AWARENESS TO MEGALOMANIA Halfway through the 1960’s, Roberto Rossellini, surely the finest director Italian cinema has ever offered and ...
Juror #2
I have to admit that the later stage of Clint Eastwood’s directing career, which started ten years ago now with ...
