Movies

In “My Father’s Shadow,” the deeply moving debut feature of British-Nigerian filmmaker Akinola Davies Jr., two young brothers—Aki (Godwin Egbo) and Remi (Chibuike Marvellous Egbo)—travel with their often-absent father, Fọlárìn (Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù), from their rural home in the Nigerian...

We celebrate the Oscar-winning 1976 film by listening back to archival interviews with Scorsese, screenwriter Paul Schrader, and actors Jodie Foster, Harvey Keitel, Cybill Shepherd and Albert Brooks. ...

Anyone who grew up in the suburbs knows how weird some of your neighbors can be. Unless it was you, and you’re the weird one. Inspired by the 1989 Tom Hanks starrer written by Dana Olsen, Peacock revisits the...

It’s difficult to shake the fugue that Óliver Laxe’s sun-scorched “Sirât” puts you under. Focusing on a father, Luis (Sergi López), searching for his daughter amidst the rave scene in Morocco, it starts as “Mad Max: Fury Rave” with...

The works of singular filmmaker Amanda Kramer live in the realm of theatricality, pastiche, and aesthetic artificiality, where Brechtian remove commingles with dry wit. Her films exist in fully realized worlds that evoke the slightly surreal feeling of a...