A Tale of Autumn—the final installment of Rohmer’s Tales of the Four Seasons cycle—screens as a part of the National Gallery of Art’s Seasons of Rohmer, a series focused on Rohmer’s surprisingly strong late period. With A Tale of Autumn, the director eschewed the pretty naïfs and well-coiffed bachelors who usually inhabit his work, opting [...]
In its 25th year, Washington’s international film festival will offer glimpses of a South Korean orphanage and Iranian domesticity, a Himalayan monastery and a Norwegian Christmas. It’ll take you inside one of Scientology’s most mysterious arms, and back to the times of Goethe and Lope de Vega. It’ll escort you to the frontlines of revolution [...]
In a bold new feature version of Jane Eyre, director Cary Joji Fukunaga (Sin Nombre) infuses a contemporary immediacy into Charlotte Brontë’s timeless, classic story. Mia Wasikowska (Alice in Wonderland) and Michael Fassbender (Inglourious Basterds) star in the iconic lead roles of the romantic drama, the heroine of which continues to inspire new generations of [...]
Watch Werner Herzog discuss his latest documentary on the stunning 32,000-year-old paintings inside France’s Chauvet cave.
