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Among one of the new crop of filmmakers to emerge in the 2000s, Ramin Bahrani is among a group of new filmmakers who doesn’t just explore the struggles that people go through everyday but also for the fact that he showcases a sense of realism that isn...

Jesse Eisenberg and Mia Wasikowska in Rochard Ayoade's The Double A sign that spring is (almost) on the horizon came today with the announcement of the first round of films that will screen in the 2014 New Directors/New Films, slated for March 19 -...

Austrian film director and screenwriter, Michael Haneke is one of Europe’s most prominent and controversial auteurs working today. He began his career in television and theatre and it wasn’t until late in his career at the age of 33 that...

Sundays may be a “wan, stuff shadow of a robust Saturday” or a day of “forced leisure for folks who have no aptitude for leisure,” according to Tom Robbins, but a weekend is still a weekend. The pleasure of a Friday night, the knowing the burdens of...

THE MOST COMMON starting point for thinking about the measured, quiet films of Robert Bresson is a 1964 essay by that champion of style, Susan Sontag. First published in The Seventh Art, “Spiritual Style in the Films of Robert Bresson” positions the...