Days and Nights in the Forest has emerged from the wilderness. Sayajit Ray’s film was not widely available following its 1970 release, but with special thanks to Wes Anderson and […]
The Architecture & Design Film Festival, a touring international film festival, returns to Chicago next week. The festival runs Thursday, February 19, through Sunday, February 22, at the Chicago Cultural Center […]
On the subject of Internet scammers, I can only echo the words of Karen Hill’s mom in Goodfellas: “What kind of people are these?!” Faulty late fees, undeliverable packages, supposedly […]
“A force for good in the universe.” This was filmmaker Rian Johnson’s decree on Filmspotting, Chicago’s premier movie talk show of the century. Born as Cinecast in 2005, just months […]
In 1969, film critics Roger Ebert and John West hatched the idea of watching a movie like a coach studies game film: frame by frame. Ebert taught the method to […]
It’s taken close to nine years for a new film by Lisandro Alons>o, Argentina’s leading exponent of slow cinema, to reach our screens. The release of Eureka may not be […]
Much like Terence Malick’s return to feature filmmaking after a 28-year hiatus with 1998’s The Thin Red Line, the return of celebrated Spanish filmmaker Víctor Erice to our big screens […]
This article was written by Anthony Miglieri. The air is buoyant in the early hours—it reaches the brain more quickly than usual. Armed with seven to nine hours of sleep […]
We all have different mechanisms for coping with death or its imminent arrival. In the case of seven-year-old Sol’s family in Tótem, Mexican filmmaker Lila Avilés’ delicate second feature, that […]
The city of Santurce used to be, when I was growing up in the 1970s and early ’80s, the moviegoing mecca for those who called the San Juan Metropolitan Area […]
While American cinema has now begun to slowly (although not necessarily surely) reckon with the legacy of colonialism and white supremacy, Latin American cinema has long decried its brutal legacy. […]
The Chicago European Union Film Festival screens throughout March at downtown’s Siskel Film Center. Third Coast Review staff bring you capsule reviews of select premieres and special screenings each week. […]