Upstart New York distributor 1-2 Special has added another indie gem to its fast-growing slate, picking up all rights in North America to Mark Jenkin’s Rose of Nevada,…
Read more 1-2 Special Takes ‘Rose of Nevada’ for North America (Exclusive)Vulture first reviewed Late Fame when it premiered at the 82nd Venice International Film Festival on August 30, 2025. We are republishing the review now that it’s playing…
Read more Dafoe vs. the DandiesIn films like Grizzly Man, Aguirre, the Wrath of God and Fitzcarraldo, Werner Herzog has been drawn to obsessive men whose hubris tricks them into believing they can…
Read more ‘Ghost Elephants’ Review: Werner Herzog Remains Our Most Intrepid Interdimensional Explorer in Beguilingly Spiritual Nature DocThe Last Viking, the latest collaboration between Danish writer-director Anders Thomas Jensen and his longtime muses Mads Mikkelsen and Nikolaj Lie Kaas, is a wild, darkly comic fable…
Read more Mads Mikkelsen and Nikolaj Lie Kaas Talk Beatles, Abba and Brotherhood in Anders Thomas Jensen’s ‘The Last Viking’The undeniably robust 82nd edition of the Venice International Film Festival has come to a triumphant finish. Heading into Saturday night’s awards ceremony, Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania’s…
Read more Venice Film Festival Awards: Jim Jarmusch’s ‘Father Mother Sister Brother’ Wins Golden LionThe director’s latest, her first film in seven years, is an absurdly riveting thriller with the kind of ticking-clock suspense Bigelow does so well. Photo: Eros Hoagland/Netflix The…
Read more A House of Dynamite Is Kathryn Bigelow at Her BestMexico in the late 1980s. The eight-year-old Roberta watches her family of seven women fight to save their home from mounting debt. It is a struggle that will…
Read more Mayra Hermosillo’s ‘Vanilla’ Explores Family and Identity in an All-Female Household (Exclusive Venice Trailer)Photo: Stefania D’Alessandro/WireImage At the 2025 Venice Film Festival, Jim Jarmusch spoke out against Mubi for their ties to the Israeli military. According to The Hollywood Reporter, he…
Read more Jim Jarmusch ‘Disappointed’ by Mubi’s Ties to Israeli MilitaryAn eternal “it girl” — charismatic, original and ahead of every curve right up until she died this year aged 78 — British singer-songwriter-actor Marianne Faithfull receives a…
Read more ‘Broken English’ Review: An Imaginative, Fittingly Eccentric Documentary Pays Starry Tribute to Marianne FaithfullIf you’ve loved a Danish film in the past 20 years, there’s a good chance it was written by Anders Thomas Jensen. The wildly prolific Danish screenwriter has…
Read more Venice: Anders Thomas Jensen on ‘The Last Viking,’ Mads Mikkelsen and Why He’s Team ABBAYorgos Lanthimos’s Bugonia began life as a remake of the 2003 South Korean film Save the Green Planet!, and it retains the broad outlines of that strange classic.…
Read more With Bugonia, Yorgos Lanthimos Enters the Real World, Sort OfIn his first official appearance as the president of this year’s Venice Film Festival competition jury, veteran filmmaker Alexander Payne fielded some heavy questions about everything from the…
Read more Alexander Payne “Unprepared” to Comment on Gaza as He Fields Flurry of Political Questions in VeniceHundreds of Italian and international filmmakers, artists and cultural figures have signed an open letter calling on the Venice Film Festival to take a “clear and unambiguous stand”…
Read more Filmmakers Urge Venice to Take Stand on Gaza in Open Letter