Johan Grimonprez's Soundtrack to a Coup D'Etat is a grim, exciting history lesson that announces itself with percussive ...

I had not paid close attention to what Almodóvar was up to during what I call his “Hollywood” period: not that he “went Hollywood,” but the films that start with Women on the Verge of a Nervous ...

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The moody music and remote setting signal horrors on the horizon, though they turn out to be less spectacular in form than one might expect. In the car, a close-up observes Jeff’s hand nervously ...

A Martinican writer and activist, and a key figure in the Afro-Surrealist movement, Suzanne Roussi Césaire co-founded the dissident magazine Tropiques with her husband Aimé Césaire and other ...

In the early 1920s, masses of people sought comfort in spiritualism, consulting mediums to communicate with the dearly departed. God and the afterlife were still in play, and most families had ...

The past is full of surprises. It was news to me—bracingly delivered by Northern Lights (1978)—that more than a century ago, North Dakota birthed a socialist-inspired farm-labor movement that sought ...

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In Guillaume Cailleau and Ben Russell’s documentary feature DIRECT ACTION, the viewer is dropped into the Notre-Dame-des-Landes commune, one of the most controversial ZAD (Zone à Défendre, or Zone to ...

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“We play with the surface of things,” the Italian poet and novelist Cesare Pavese writes in Dialogues with Leucò (1947), one of the last works he published before his death by suicide in 1950. “We ...

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