The word “realism” has come to describe movies that keep to an expected set of stylistic markers: a focus on average, middle-to-lower-class people; an unfussy naturalism; a concern with the struggles ...

Move over, Citizen Kane. There’s a new best film ever, according to the most recent Sight & Sound poll. Sight and Sound’s poll is considered a bellwether of changing cinematic tastes. The naming of ...

Chantal Akerman’s 1975 masterpiece Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles was declared the greatest film of all time in the prestigious British Film Institute’s “Sight and Sound” poll, to ...

The film that critics recently voted as the best of all time is set to return to cinemas next month. In 2022, Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975), directed by the late Belgian ...

Last night at 2:17 AM, every child from Mrs. Gandy's class went missing.

Still from “Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles." (Courtesy Janus Films) The survey’s inaugural edition was won by Vittorio De Sica’s “Bicycle Thieves,” a victory some still attribute ...

Pour quelle raison le spectateur doit subir ce supplice de Tantale : L'un des charmes de Madame Delphine Seyrig, si ce n'est le principal, était était son timbre de voix magnifié par une diction ...

Move over, Citizen Kane. There’s a new best film ever, according to the most recent Sight & Sound poll. Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (usually shortened to ...

The stuff of most lives, filmed in real time, wouldn’t make much of a movie. But that’s exactly the point of Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, which, over the course of more than three hours, details ...