Can excrement be turned to gold? In a famous scene from 1973's "The Holy Mountain," a character called The Alchemist declares it possible, then proves it to another character, The Thief. From the ...
Welcome to Holy Week! How are you celebrating? You might be doubling down (or starting over) on your Lenten penances, looking up special Mass times in the bulletin, or praying that this is the year ...
The big winner at the Stockholm International Film Festival 2022 was Holy Spider, directed by Swedish-Danish-Iranian Ali Abbasi. The film won the Bronze Horse for Best Film, while lead actor Mehdi ...
"You've got a family... A family that's waiting for you." Rialto Distribution has revealed an official trailer for a charming ...
The Cannes Film Festival’s iconic red carpet played host to a rare form of protest on Sunday, as a feminist collective unleashed smoke bombs and unrolled a list of murdered women just before the world ...
Nate Richard is a Resource Editor for Collider, a film and television critic, and a part-time amateur filmmaker. He graduated from Ball State University in December 2020 with a Bachelor's degree in ...
Yesterday afternoon, at the end of the gloriously sunny three-day weekend, I stepped out of SIFF’s Fly Filmmaking Challenge (at which local filmmaker Bao Tran was a standout) and bumped into SIFF ...
Amir-Ebrahimi, who won the best actress prize at Cannes, speaks to the power of Denmark’s Oscar submission, about an Iranian serial killer who targets women. By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief ...
A lurid and purposefully nasty piece of work, writer-director Ali Abbasi’s “Holy Spider” tells the true story of Saeed Hanaei, a construction worker and decorated veteran of the Iran-Iraq war who in ...
"Biodestructors are microfungi that existed millions of years before humans and will likely outlive us," reads a synopsis of Aiste Zegulyte's essayistic sophomore doc. By Georg Szalai Global Business ...
Belgian filmmaker Lukas Dhont’s Close, Danish director Ali Abbasi’s Holy Spider and Swedish director Ruben Ôstlund’s Triangle Of Sadness lead the nominations for the 35th European Film Awards, which ...