El Hedi ben Salem was a Moroccan actor. He is best known as the lover and collaborator of provocative German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder. He died while in prison. Fassbinder dedicated his last ...

In 1947’s “Querelle of Brest,” French author Jean Genet spins one hell of a tale about a bisexual sailor, prostitute and serial killer who loves power more than anything else. Thirty-five years after ...

Film is like the indestructible black knight in Monty Python's The Holy Grail: It's not dead yet. Digital photography is well into its third decade. Yet film keeps hanging on, lying there shouting, ...

Actress Hanna Schygulla, best-known for her extensive collaboration with the late German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder, accepted the German Film Academy's lifetime achievement award at the German ...

Just as there are great films from every genre, great directors on this list have worked in comedy, drama, western, noir, musicals and even animation. The best directors also come from many markets, ...

Cinephiles are known to get excitable every time The Criterion Collection—the taste-making film distributor—announces a new batch of films is joining its esteemed library. Directed by influential, ...

Other new Blu-ray releases include Barry Jenkins' "The Underground Railroad" and Lana and Lilly Wachowski's "Bound." The Criterion Collection has announced its slate of releases for June 2024, which ...

Tonight, the 96th Academy Awards will air and award some brass to the top achievements in film over the last year. And it seems that Billie Eilish is set to win her second Best Original Song Oscar in ...

Morris Chestnut, Cuba Gooding Jr. and Ice Cube in "Boyz n the Hood," one of the top coming-of-age movies. You’re never too old to watch coming-of-age movies. These films remind us of the magic of ...

Navigating the Sundance Film Festival can be a tricky endeavor. The stacked screening schedule is practically made to send cinephiles into a tailspin: If the line for the new Steven Soderbergh movie ...