Category Archives: Variety

Andres Veiel’s documentary "Riefenstahl," which challenges the carefully crafted public persona of one of Germany's most controversial directors, is one of 17 German films playing in the various...

At first glance, there doesn't seem to be much common cause between Pablo Larran's anticipated Maria Callas biopic, "Maria," starring Angelina Jolie as the titular opera singer, and Brady Corbet's "Th...

The restored version of Indian auteur Girish Kasaravalli’s 1977 Kannada-language debut feature “Ghatashraddha” (“The Ritual”) is set to premiere at the Venice Film Festiv...

A love triangle involving a middle-aged couple and a younger woman is exposed and scrutinized from every angle when a professional breakup agent is employed in Elizabeth Lo's "Mistress Dispeller." The...

The story of Giancarlo Parretti, the flamboyant Italian waiter-turned-financier who bought MGM in 1990 and was ousted and indicted when his takeover deal for the Hollywood studio collapsed, is in earl...

With "The Act of Killing," director Joshua Oppenheimer approached the documentary form in a radical, seemingly unthinkable way, inviting his subjects - Indonesian gangsters who had once served on the ...

Midnight screenings rarely come more fitting than “Baby Invasion,” Harmony Korine’s latest experimental, unconventional and video game-like assault on the senses, which had its world...

Erratic, prolific Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa (“Pulse,” “Cure”) has, at his best, a peculiar genius for finding strangeness - often malevolence - gathering like dust in ...

The California state Senate has passed a law that requires consent for the use of dead performers’ likenesses for AI-created digital replicas. SAG-AFTRA has been among the organizations champion...

"A Clockwork Orange" opens with Alex DeLarge and his fellow droogs breaking into a rich writer's home and raping his wife, which would be bad enough if he weren't crooning "Singin' in the Rain" in the...