Yorgos Lanthimos’s latest film, “Bugonia,” offers a haunting glimpse into contemporary class and power struggles in American politics told through an absurdist plot. As Lanthimos’s tenth ...

With One Battle After Another, Paul Thomas Anderson rewrites the playbook for political cinema By Christian Lorentzen Artwork by Matt McCormick It's fortuitous when the zeitgeist and a filmmaker's ...

To drive through it was both to experience a kind of cinematic thrill and attain a level of comprehension only the movies could prepare you for. By the time the 2010’s rolled around, audiences were ...

Donald Trump’s victory in November 2024 led to considerable soul-searching among those on the left of US politics. Having failed to defeat a convicted criminal they beat once before, the Democrats ...

The world is always changing, but is it ever for the better? Sometimes that's hard to tell. But there are always movies about people trying to make the world a better place to inspire you and to shake ...

"We are the counterweight of politics, the opposite of politics, we have to do the work of people — not the work of politicians," said the legendary filmmaker at the first Berlin Film Fest press ...

Some directors and stars at the Berlin Film Festival rejected a political view of cinema. But the movies there suggest that politics is broader than just activism. By Beatrice Loayza Reporting from ...

Teaching Associate in Media and Cultural Studies, University of Nottingham Donald Trump’s victory in November 2024 led to considerable soul-searching among those on the left of US politics. Having ...