It is 16th-century Japan, a time of civil war. Attacks on small villages are unpredictable and inevitable. In one such village lives a small group of families, similar to...
INSIANG (1976) They are the slums of Manila, where children play and live in the streets, markets blend together, animals roam like residents. It is in a small shanty tha...
She boils water. She drains pasta. She answers the door. She washes herself. She cooks dinner. She dines. She reads letters. She knits. She brushes her hair. She makes th...
The woman frantically scours the refugee camp. She asks a boy if he has parents, to which he points their way. He asks a man if the girl on his lap is his daughter, which...
The rain falls overhead and the umbrellas–dozens of them in all shades–glide across the screen. Some seem to move without people underneath, as if guided only...
The New York Chronicle publishes several columns and beats. Spread over several floors of a Manhattan building, the reporters tend to stick with their own kind. If there ...
“Ah, the Buena Vista Social Club!” It’s a moment of recognition and admiration on the part of the cigar-chomping man. The man, a musician named Compay Segundo, sugg...
The older man sits at his breakfast table. He opens the mail as his wife settles in after walking the dog. One envelope holds a letter, written in German. The man, Geoff ...
“Yes, folks, this isn’t any cheap X-rated movie or any fifth-rate porno play; this is the show you want!…Not actors, not paid impostors, but real actual filthy ...
Fox is better known to the community as “Fox the Talking Head,” his moniker in the sideshow. It’s a steady gig, although surely not the most ideal atmosphere. In a ...
