Mikio Naruse’s great 1960 film presents a compassionate view of the life of bar hostesses in a disreputable section of Tokyo. I find it...
Radu Jude’s film about a young rebel in Romania’s gig economy is a provocative satire on the degraded state of modern society. For the...
The two most famous film versions of Victor Hugo’s novel featured Lon Chaney in 1923, and Charles Laughton in 1939. In 1831, Victor Hugo...