While the idea behind the "Short Cuts" series is sound, this introduction to film studies never seems to know what it wants to be, and what kind of introduction it wants to deliver. Lacking a strong ...

We live with films every day, and it seems nothing easier than answering the question: what is a film? Obviously, a film is, first and foremost, a document, a testimony of the world that surrounds us.

A few years ago, before a pair of starring roles in two major Richard Linklater movies provided him with a jolt of career-affirming success, Ethan Hawke was having a crisis of confidence. “I’ve been ...

Hong Sang Soo has scored the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay at this year’s Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale) for his latest film, “Introduction.” The 71st edition of the Berlin ...