cinema

This was several years before I procured a driver’s license and a Blockbuster card, which would become my entree to indie, art house and international cinema, to movies for and about adults.

Devotees of Iranian New Wave cinema will spot scores of Easter eggs.

I love that when you watch a movie with a projector, whether you’re in a cinema or someone’s living room, you can accidentally interrupt the picture with your body if it blocks the light.

“And the job of representation, be it cinema or literature, is to give it that kind of robustness in its representation.”

Less an epic poem than a showcase for two of cinema’s finest actors, “The Return” is visually bleak and emotionally gripping.