"A mesmerizing piece of rhythmical film-making." BFI in the UK has unveiled a brand new trailer for the 50th anniversary re-release of a Belgian cinema classic - Chantal Akerman's Jeanne Dielman. The ...

Is Chantal Akerman the maker of the greatest film ever made? No reasonable artist would want the burden of such a designation, and Akerman never had to bear it in life. The Belgian director and ...

Canonized two years ago as the greatest film of all time, topping Sight and Sound’s once-every-decade poll, Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles now celebrates its ...

For 12 days, the Criterion Collection has made its entire catalogue of Akerman’s work available for viewing on Hulu for free. Filmmaker Chantal Akerman being interviewed in 2011 (gif Hrag ...

A killer game of hide and seek.

Twelve terrorists. One cop. The odds are against John McClane... That's just the way he likes it.

Alfred Hitchcock, the late "Master of Suspense," and Jiří Menzel, the late Czech director who won the foreign-language film Oscar for 1966's Closely Watched Trains, will get some screen love during ...

A fierce work of quasi-neorealist melodrama that melds pop cinema instincts and political indignation, Lino Brocka’s 1980 feature endures as a lively, searing parable on the plight of Filipino women ...

Directors’ Fortnight, the independent selection running alongside the Cannes Film Festival, has created a People’s Choice Award which will be voted on by audiences. The prize is endowed by the ...

Cannes Directors’ Fortnight is launching a new People’s Choice audience award at its upcoming edition, running alongside the main festival from May 15-26. The parallel section said the award, which ...