Two years ago, I took on the wacky but truly inspiring challenge of seeing as many of the 93 International...
Read moreYou've not seen a film quite like Alice Diop's Saint Omer. The French-language legal drama, selected as France's official entry...
Read moreEveryone deserves love, and that is the easy lesson that director Maryam Touzani wants to drive home with her beautiful...
Read moreNetflix's upcoming All Quiet on the Western Front will contend within the German race for Oscar's International Feature category. Here are...
Read moreThe Contenders Austria, Great Freedom Belgium, Playground Bhutan, Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom Denmark, Flee Finland, Compartment No. 6...
Read moreRyusuke Hamaguchi, the co-writer and director of Drive My Car, a frontrunner for Best International Feature at the 2022 Oscars, joins...
Read more“Cinema is a distraction from reality, which is lousy.” --Federico Fellini as quoted in Paolo Sorrentino’s The Hand of God...
Read moreI like to think I am good luck for my interviewees. Nicole Beharie won the Gotham Award two days after...
Read moreImagine being told you only have three months to live? Then, nine years later, the film you made about the...
Read moreAgnieszka Holland is a truly international filmmaker who has blazed a trail for politically and socially relevant work in her...
Read moreIf La Llorona is nominated for International Feature at this year's Academy Awards, it will be the first entry from...
Read moreNot every immigrant experience is the same. The sooner we accept and explore that notion, the more we can learn...
Read moreOn July 11, 1995, amidst the ever-growing turmoil in Bosnia, the Serbian army stormed the city of Srebrenica and forced...
Read moreThe International Feature Film Oscar submissions this year include a rich and accomplished collection of filmmakers whose bold and singular...
Read moreLast week I analyzed 80 of the 93 International Feature Film Oscar submissions. Since then, I was able to secure...
Read moreWhen I first pondered doing a piece on the Best International Feature Film Oscar submissions, I assumed I would be...
Read moreTwo of Us is a film made with beautiful delicacy and care that shows how established love can be unexpectedly...
Read moreThe Academy has scrapped the "Foreign Language Feature Film" category title and replaced it with "International Feature Film," in their...
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