Somewhere between a photograph and a dream, La Jetée lives. It doesn’t move like a film, but it feels more alive than most. Chris...

The Brutalist (2024), directed by Brady Corbet, is an ambitious VistaVision epic spanning architecture, immigration, class struggle,...

This fall, fellow Columbia Sophomore, Francesca Carillo, and I excitedly took our seats at the 62nd New York Film Festival to see Luca...

Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Conformist is filled with stunning visuals allegorizing the politics of fascist Italy, as well as precise...

Brooke Berman (Barnard ‘92) is an independent filmmaker, playwright, and author whose debut feature, Ramona at Midlife , released to...

Set in 1990s Cuba, Los Frikis tells the story of reserved 18-year old Gustavo (Eros de la Puente) and his rebellious older brother, Paco...

Throughout his career as a filmmaker, Luca Guadagnino has defined himself as a master—both aesthetically and diegetically—of depicting...

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Sean Baker’s Anora is a riveting Cinderella-esque tale following the romance between Ani, a Brooklyn sex worker, and Ivan, the son of...

Spectacularly entertaining and hilariously violent, Quentin Tarantino’s award-winning 2012 Western Django Unchained succeeds with flying...

I've read these Christmas books so many times, I know the stories and I know the rhymes I know the Christmas carols all by heart My skull...

Once on board and settled in on an airplane, it is quite common for travelers to shuffle through the never ending list of films available...

The past couple of years have kindled a newfound interest in Lena Dunham’s 2012 HBO TV show Girls . TikTok and Instagram have been...

No matter how horrible they are, we’re all guilty of hate-watching (or secretly loving) teeny bop movies. Their familiar structure is...

Introduction Trauma, in its very essence, is a persistence of pain. And if emotion is a story and persistence the canonization of that...

Megalopolis managed to force its way through my cinema firewall mere minutes after its premiere at Cannes earlier this year. Videos of...

Sexploitation films are characterized by their unflinching sensationalism of gratuitous nudity. Mainly directed by male directors such as...

When the harsh overhead lights came on in my basement classroom after a screening of Maryam Touzani’s The Blue Caftan , my eyes were both...

"You dream in a language I can't understand. It's like there's this whole place inside you I can't go," says Arthur to his wife, Nora, in...

You know what’s a pretty weird phenomenon? Applause after films. That’s not to say that I don’t clap when I’m amazed by a movie, but when...