This week, we’re joined by pioneering Saudi filmmaker Haifaa Al Mansour for a conversation about her new film, UNIDENTIFIED — a tense and haunting mystery thriller set within the hidden world of modern Saudi women. At the center of the film is Noelle Al...
A hundred episodes ago, we started with a simple belief: that movies still matter most when they are shared. Not just streamed, not just consumed, but experienced — in the dark, on a big screen, with other people, in the places where cinema still feels alive. Since...
What does it mean to love a place that is changing before your eyes? That question sits at the heart of TIME AND WATER, a beautiful and deeply moving new documentary from Academy Award-nominated director Sara Dosa. The film follows Icelandic writer Andri...
In American culture, Leonard Bernstein occupies a strange—and almost impossible—space. A conductor. A composer. A teacher. A celebrity. An activist. The son of Jewish immigrants, Bernstein rose to become one of the most influential musical figures of the twentieth...
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, power didn’t disappear. It transformed—quieter, more calculated, and far more dangerous. Starring Paul Dano and Jude Law, THE WIZARD OF THE KREMLIN, directed by Olivier Assayas, is not simply a political thriller. It’s a...
The 1922 film A BLIND BARGAIN has long held a mythic status—one of the most sought-after lost films of the silent era. Lon Chaney starred in a dual role. The film was released by Goldwyn Pictures after a battle with censors… and then, like so many films of...
