Film, the measure of all things

The director speaks his mind on rejected sequel ideas, Joaquin Phoenix’s plan to quit the original and working with a “fractious” Denzel Washington.

In his hagiography of American cinema, the Gospel according to St. Andrew, Sarris consigns Ida Lupino to outer limbo in a single sentence: “Ida Lupino’s directed films express much of the feeling if little of the skill which she has projected so admirably as an actress.” Not content with thus summarily dispatching Lupino’s lifetime opus, Sarris, “while on the subject,” brings up Lillian Gish’s one directorial attempt, and allows her conclusion to speak for itself: “Directing is no job for a lady.”

The work of Ukraine’s singular and prolific Kira Muratova – best known for 1989’s Asthenic Syndrome, but spanning the Soviet Thaw and two decades post-perestroika – remains critically neglected. Is it just too unflinching, asks Birgit Beumers.

The Latina actress turns 93 on Dec. 11, and the new Barbie Tribute Collection doll is being released ahead of her birthday to celebrate her life and career.

An exhibition of unseen film footage and camera tests from director Sergei Parajanov’s 1969 masterpiece Sayat Nova AKA The Colour of Pomegranates

Our last show highlighted the “lost” Orson Welles film It’s All True with filming taking place in 1942; and today we offer a bookend. Netflix has just released a version of another Welles project t…

New Criterion series highlights the work of the actor and director who delivered powerful, provocative performances

The director’s fantastical drama, starring a never-better Nicole Kidman, was booed and criticised in 2004 but its fans have grown over time

Recent releases like Terrifier 3 show that the business of scaring cinema audiences is in rude health. But such horror flicks are standing on the blood-soaked shoulders of giants

How, though, can we still talk of art, if the world itself is turning cinematic, becoming “just an act” directly controlled and immediately processed by a television that excludes any supplementary function?

Curiously, one of the most precise analyses of the films that Josef von Sternberg and Marlene Dietrich made together comes from a single page of an essay that reads more like a takedown.

Some context might help. Between 1988 and 1997 the Baltimore-based filmmaker Rob Tregenza directed three features that amassed a small, enviable group of admirers. If it's one thing to secure bookings at arthouses and galleries, it's quite another for your debut film to be anointed some groundbreaking moment in American movies by Jonathan Rosenbaum and

I was very gratified by the response to last year's interview with Rob Tregenza, a Zelig-like figure of modern cinema. Our very long, multi-Zoom conversation covered a life in film: four features, cherished experiences with Jean-Luc Godard, and hopes he hadn't reached the end. What I didn't quite find time for was, and I am

When history ends its tempting to sleep through all the chaos. But as The Asthenic Syndrome points out, neither sleep — or art — can change a single thing,

Offscreen is an online film journal that publishes essays, reviews, interviews and festival reports monthly. Offscreen is the longest running monthly online film journal, active since 1997 and takes writing about film seriously.

‘It’s about a guy who has this horrible private obsession but doesn’t accept he’s hurting anyone. He feels he’s a good father, a good family man, and that this other life is his alone. Sadly, I don’t think that’s rare’

The much-maligned 1985 boxing film provides a few hints about the causes of 21st century artistic stagnation: namely, popular artists now work in a risk-averse creative paradigm that avoids making instantly-outmoded artworks Sylvester Stallone’s 1985 film Rocky IV is so infamously schlocky that it’s become a cliché to

While considered by many to be minor works, Serial Mom and A Dirty Shame represent some of our contemporary concerns and anxieties while offering a surprisingly wholesome view of queer community.

Revolutionary movie search engine where you can freely describe a film you want to watch.

French actor Alain Delon has died aged 88. Best known for his cinema work in the 1960s, he starred in a string of works by auteur directors before turning producer. Here we look back at his life and career

A new book claims that a few big summer movies heralded an epochal shift in the motion-picture industry, but is that really how cultural history works?

Two writers and friends look at movie soundtracks that changed their lives, both coincidentally starring Christian Slater.

bIn iTrue Story/i and iI Am Michael/i, which are both premiering at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, the 36-year-old actor struggles to perform within his own enigmatic persona./b

In The Globe’s arts pages, he brought a bold voice to film criticism. In his personal life, the twists and tragedies were worthy of a Hollywood screenplay

Ti West’s clever and original ‘X’ trilogy is elevated postmodern horror at its finest and its director’s best work to date.