presented in ballot order, from the link below, to allow for easy following along with those who made the selections first (each film can only be listed once) www.screenslate.com/articles/best-movies-...

Jafar Panahi’s career has proven to be an exercise in adaptability. His highly publicized tactics of clandestine production, circumventing the approval of Iran’s Ministry of Culture, have laid out a b...

The musician, actor, and filmmaker Matt Farley has been making movies with his family and friends under the banner of Motern Media since 2002. Working alongside Charles Roxburgh, he’s made what he cal...

When discussed, the topic of alien abduction can often lead to one of the following reactions: mocking laughter and derision, or the conclusion that an abductee is contending with a psychological cond...

“Let’s sing an endless song / For this asshole of a world.” Korean exchange student Son (Bae Doona) spits out those words with joyful vitriol toward the end of Linda Linda Linda (2005), a coming-of-ag...

In John Carpenter’s Escape from L.A. (1996), a catastrophic earthquake separates Los Angeles from the continental United States at the turn of the millennium, and the city is turned into a maximum sec...

I never could understand the motivations of “Summer Camp People”––those seasonal blooms flowering between Memorial Day and Labor Day in the Adirondacks, Berkshires, and the Poconos––who live only for ...

Halfway through the second, maybe third, decade of our “needing to talk about” the crises facing American young men is the perfect time to check in with Cecil B. DeMille’s 1933 Teen Power fantasy This...

Red Bone Guerrillas (2003) wears its shagginess with pride. It begins with a title card proclaiming that it’s rated “NS”: no script, no second takes. All the dialogue was improvised by its cast. Along...

Jia Zhangke has been collecting footage for his films as he’s travelled across China for over 22 years. When the Covid-19 pandemic interrupted his routine, he thought to wrap the process up.

A quintessential product of the nouvelle vague, the director and screenwriter André Téchiné began his career as a critic at Cahiers du cinéma. He started to make his own films after working as an assi...

In 1953, the United States’ favorite harebrained housewife appeared before Senator McCarthy’s House Un-American Activities Committee to answer for her alleged communist sympathies. Like many actresses...

Parallel Cinema, a traditionally overlooked film movement, has equally overlooked filmmakers populating its canon. Only recently has the film world outside of India come to embrace the importance of f...

What follows is an interview with Sylvain George, one of the most important documentary filmmakers working in France today. The occasion is the start of “No Border,” the first multi-day retrospective ...

All That Remains - Spectacle Theater

After striking box office gold with Enter the Ninja (1981) and Revenge of the Ninja (1982), Cannon Films released Ninja III: The Domination (1984). Despite the fact that all three films feature the fa...

Henry Fonda starred in some of the best American films made from the 1930s through the 1980s, and one in Italy, Sergio Leone’s Once Upon a Time in the West, from 1968. Fonda was of course also the fat...

Henry Fonda starred in some of the best American films made from the 1930s through the 1980s, and one in Italy, Sergio Leone’s Once Upon a Time in the West, from 1968. Fonda was of course also the fat...

The Providence Place Mall, in downtown Providence, RI, is the largest indoor carpeted mall in the United States. This distinction is beloved among Rhode Islanders, and conversations about it usually f...

'Going Down,' the 1983 cult indie film from Australia and director Haydn Keenan, has been restored in 4K and will make its US premiere at BAM in NYC.