Angelo Madsen’s feature documentary A Body to Live In and Tiona Nekkia McClodden’s video installations explore sadomasochism ...

Eternalisms: a tribute to the indefatigable husband and wife pair, whose art was a neverending process of revelation ...

The Japanese eco-fantasist Hayao Miyazaki is an animation magician, a crowd-pleasing storyteller who is also a builder of worlds. He designs meticulously engineered imaginary aircraft, sets their ...

Back in the day, Tucson photographer Bob Broder used to string for The Arizona Republic. Eric Kroll, another local—and former Taschen book editor—recently unearthed a stash of negatives Broder shot on ...

1. Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia Sam Peckinpah, 19742. Claire’s Knee Eric Rohmer, 19703. Faces John Cassavetes, 19684. Eyes Without a Face ...

(Warner Archive, $18.95)As John Ford said to a teenage Spielberg: “Where’s the horizon?” In Philip Kaufman’s 1974 film it rises almost to the top of the frame, an unforgiving expanse governed by harsh ...

(Nikita Mikhalkov, Russia, 2007)For numerically titled Russian movies of the moment, stick with 4 instead of 12. Old soul Nikita Mikhalkov’s appropriation of the 12 Angry Men template is a bloated ...

Premised on illusion and promising endless reanimation, cinema is often called the ghostliest of mediums. Ghosts are themselves cinematic in essence, automatic disruptions in space and time. Movies ...

It’s all over. Well, not quite, but the 2010s did come to an end on a note of pessimism about the world, and one of resignation about the film industry’s consolidation and glut of choice. At the same ...

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Photos show a sharp dresser, toothy and baby-faced, the overall effect marred somewhat by the fact that he was five-foot-three. A notorious hypochondriac, he downed potions and remedies of all sorts ...

Sammo Hung is often called the greatest action director in the world. Why? The backstory: Sammo went to a Peking Opera School called the Chinese Drama Academy as a child and his class spawned Jackie ...