September 16th, 2025 by Aaron Neuwirth
Coming in December: Return to Reason, four swirling surrealist dreams from Man Ray, set to an ethereal score by SQÜRL; Salaam Bombay!, Mira Nair’s kaleidoscopic portrait of Bombay’s teeming street life; Pee-wee’s Big Adventure, an eccentric 1980s pop-culture comedy touchstone directed by Tim Burton; and David Byrne’s American Utopia, Spike Lee’s ecstatic documentary capturing the transcendent power of song. Plus: His Girl Friday, directed by […]
February 15th, 2022 by Aaron Neuwirth
Mystery lurks this May with a missing man in San Francisco’s Chinatown in Wayne Wang’s Chan Is Missing, a mistaken identity in World War II-era Paris in Joseph Losey’s Mr. Klein, and the sinister scheme in hard-boiled LA that put film noir on the map in Billy Wilder’s Double Indemnity. Plus: The maker of Tampopo, Juzo Itami, takes on the Japanese way of death […]
January 24th, 2017 by Brandon Peters
Glowingly reviewed by critics, but never finding an audience at the box office, Disney’s Queen of Katwe is making its way to Blu-ray. Based on the vibrant true story of a young girl (Madina Nalwanga) from the streets of Uganda whose world changes when she is introduced to the game of chess, and, as a […]
