While the 66th edition of the Cannes Film Festival is still a week away, today marks the start of a new series at Brooklyn's BAMcinématek that looks back at the history of the festival -- particularly the notorious tendency of its audiences to boo certain films upon their premieres.
Read More »M. Night Shyamalan has had one of the more -- interesting? controversial? -- trajectories of any filmmaker in recent memory. While no one remembers his first two movies ("Wide Awake," "Praying With Anger"), it was 1999's "The Sixth Sense" that made him a sensation, with many calling him the next Alf...
Read More »This Friday sees the release of the much-anticipated "Stoker." The melodrama would probably be of note just because it stars Mia Wasikowksa and Nicole Kidman, but it's even more so because it marks the English-language debut of acclaimed Korean filmmaker Park Chan-Wook, the man behind "Sympathy For ...
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