The tagline for David Lynch's Inland Empire (2006), which he has avowed is his final film, is a four-word fragment: a woman in trouble. However simple, the phrase hy
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Last year's Cannes Festival seemed to be all about the past, trauma, and the persistence of memory. It's too early in this year's festival to suss out any broad them
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It might be surprising to realize that David Lynch has only ever made one period piece: The Elephant Man (1980), set in the Victorian era. The rest of the director's
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Thomas Vinterberg's The Commune is partly autobiographical: The Danish director of The Celebration and The Hunt lived in a commune between the ages of 7 and 19,
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Chris Gethard, the comedian and talk-show host, has the look of his own comic-strip avatar. Those black glasses, that elfin, upright forelock, the eyebrows that danc
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Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt streams on NetflixUnbreakable Kimmy Schmidt's disparate obsessions form an unwieldy constellation, like a winged horse with three eyes and
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Despite my fondness for Quentin Tarantino, I've never been a Reservoir Dogs fan. Back in 1992, the writer-director's feature debut seemed to me little more than a cl
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In 2008, the National Academy of Sciences saw an opening for outreach: Get real science in the movies. And by November of that year, it had begun the Science and Ent
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Amber Tamblyn, the actress, author and filmmaker, doesn't bother with coyness when it comes to her influences. The movie I saw in my head was Grey Gardens directed b
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The documentary Elián posits the story of 5-year-old Elián González, who was rescued off the coast of Florida in 1999 after attempting to leave Cuba with his moth
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Suspended in orange and crimson, the mysterious, shimmering black circle that greets us in the first shot of Last Men in Aleppo could be blood circling a drain, a dy
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Now is the time for horror. As a lifelong horror fan (both film and literature), I've encountered a number of gross misconceptions about the genre. Many of these are
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