By Yun-hua Chen. Thriller is a way to tell a story about society. Political thrillers are movies about people in a particular situation…. Everything is political.” To celebrate the Greek-French auteur Costa-Gavras’ nearly 60 years of filmmaking, the Locarno Film Festival awarded him with the lifetime achievement award of 2022 […]
Far from These Shores: Guy Maddin’s Tales from the Gimli Hospital (Redux)(1988)
By Thomas M. Puhr. This 64-minute fever dream exudes a confidence and singularity of vision rarely seen in debuts.” Angels float in an ink black sky. The camera descends from these heavens, past wispy clouds, and settles at street level, where a spotlight shines on the entrance sign to Gimli […]