4 Films to Watch After ‘The Wolf House’
Watching The Wolf House is a strange, singular experience, but film history is full of surreal animation. So we’ve put together a watchlist featuring films that influenced The Wolf House for you to check out after seeing the film.Cristóbal León
Watch Critics’ Favorite ‘A White, White Day’ with a Triple Side of Revenge
Revenge is a dish best served cold…make it a feast with three hand picked recommendations from our rental catalog to check out after you stream A White, White Day at Facets Virtual Cinema, available now until May 28.The latest from
Fest Selects: Watch 5 Award-Winning CICFF Films for Free
Watch five international, award-winning films for every age, hand selected by CICFF Festival Director, Ann Vikstrom. Take a break and leave the curation to us. These films not only screened at a past festival, but they made such an impact on our
The Brute: Buñuel’s Dark and Brutal Melodrama
Brutal passion and political commentary meet in Luis Buñuel’s take on the Frankenstein tradition. Made during his commercial period in Mexico, The Brute (1953), which pits a bourgeois landowner against his working-class tenants, may qualify as Luis Buñuel’s most political work. At the time
Sensationalism, Surrealism, Susana
A relic of Buñuel’s commercial period in Mexico, Susana offers up sex, sensationalism, and literal Sturm und Drang. The vast majority of Luis Buñuel’s filmography was released before his ascension to the throne of surrealist cinema. The filmmaker may have first come
The Unbelievable Story of Ada Falcon
Filmmakers Lorena Munoz and Sergio Wolf trace the life of an iconic tango singer who vanished at the height of her career. Ada Falcon was a tango diva. She sang on cinema screens. Her voice dominated the airwaves. Tabloids were preoccupied
25 Watts Captures the Absurdity of Adolescence
25 Watts may be an ode to Linklater and Jarmusch, but the film is more than capable of standing on its own. A worthy addition to that sub-genre of low-budget, seemingly low-effort, films that defined the independent film scene during the
The House is Black Refuses to Turn Away From Ugliness
In The House is Black, Iranian poet Forough Farrokhzad presents the lives of leper colony inhabitants with empathy and grace. “On this screen will appear an image of ugliness, a vision of pain no caring human being should ignore.” The image in question is that of
Revolution is Reborn in Electra My Love
Made up of only twelve very long takes, Miklós Jancsó’s film transforms a classic myth into a powerful political fable. Miklós Jancsó’s Electra, My Love (1974) is very much a film of its time, an artistic reaction to Soviet oppression in the years
Raymundo Gleyzer: A Revolutionary Filmmaker and the Revolution
Raymundo Gleyzer attacked the authoritarian Argentinean government with revolutionary cinema. “I don’t believe in revolutionary cinema. I believe firmly in the revolution.” Here we have, in writing, the artistic philosophy of radical Third Cinema pioneer Raymundo Gleyzer. The Argentinean filmmaker spent his career telling stories