FILMS IN FRAME

Happy birthday to Kiyoshi Kurosawa, who turns 70 today! Last year, the Japanese director chatted with @notjudygarland1 about his chiller 'Chime', the profound belief in the power of sound over image, his erudite love for cinema and Hitchcock, and more: filmsinframe.com/en/intervie…

'Motel Destino' Review: Karim Aïnouz's latest is an erotic thriller more invested in the erotic than the thriller part. Which is not to say that it doesn't keep you on the edge of your seat, but the characters' sex drive always gets in the way of the plot: filmsinframe.com/en/film-rev…

Last three days to apply to Pustnik Screenwriters Residency! ✍️ Eight writers will be invited to develop their screenplays this September in rural Romania, miles from distraction. Applications and attendance are free. More details on pustnik.com/apply

"Rarely is the discourse on the great dislocations in image and visual thinking of our century so fun and fresh." ✍️ @notjudygarland1 writes about Jia Zhangke's 'Caught by the Tides', which after its Cannes premiere last year is now in Romanian theatres: filmsinframe.com/en/film-rev…

One of the grand titans in Hong Kong cinema, Johnnie To, who turns 70 today, talks to @notjudygarland1 about his movies, working with actors, 'Everything Everywhere All at Once', and more: filmsinframe.com/en/festival…

'Polyester' Review: The sixth film from John Waters, who turns 79 today, is a rather unique one in his filmography. Starring Divine and Tab Hunter, it plays like a parody of Douglas Sirk's melodramas, but in Odorama. The tagline? 'It will blow your nose!' filmsinframe.com/en/film-rev…

Whether we pay attention to them or mock them as irrelevant, the Oscars still have the ability to tell us something about the world we live in and the state of cinema. Because beneath all the noise surrounding them, we might find some stimulating insights: filmsinframe.com/en/editoria…

Well-known for his realistic portraits of marginalized communities, the Oscar-nominated director Sean Baker explores the complex humanity behind stories often ignored by the mainstream, while redefining independent cinema with his sensitive approach: filmsinframe.com/en/features…

Get ready to check into 'The White Lotus' in Thailand! If you’re expecting more miserable rich people with problems so absurd you can’t help but laugh and staff members pretending to be happy to cater to their whims, then you’ve come to the right place: filmsinframe.com/en/film-rev…

From searing queer passions to political satires about power dynamics, we put together a list of films that don’t offer comforting love stories – rather, they tell stories that liberate, ignite, and shake us to the core: filmsinframe.com/ro/features…

With ‘Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy’ hitting theatres tomorrow, Laura Mușat wrote down ten life lessons from the bumbling reporter that made her understand you should always strive to be yourself, even in the moments you don’t feel like it: filmsinframe.com/en/features…

We spoke to ‘The Seed of the Sacred Fig’ director Mohammad Rasoulof about the challenges of working under an oppressive regime, producing his Oscar-nominated drama in secret, political cinema, and integrating into the Western film industry: filmsinframe.com/en/intervie…

Born on this day: Derek Jarman ✨ His 1986 Silver Bear-winning 'Caravaggio' is a film that belongs solely to its own time. Made today, it would sound fake, given the lesser-innocent times we live in. Read more: filmsinframe.com/en/film-rev…

Richard Linklater's 'Before Sunrise' was released in theatres 30 years ago today. But how did a conversation movie about romantic idealism manage to keep an exigent film critic like Robin Wood on the edge of his seat? Read here: filmsinframe.com/en/editoria…

David Lynch has passed away — a sentence that seems to defy the very logic of the world he created. 💔 We tried to put together a collage of memories about the filmmaker who taught us to see light and darkness differently: filmsinframe.com/en/features…

From 'La Haine' to 'Jeanne Dielman', @dima_flavia recommends eight classic political films that aim to highlight “marginal” and subversive perspectives, perfect to revisit in a tumultuous year: filmsinframe.com/en/features…

Now streaming on @StreamOnMax, Radu Jude's 'Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World' is perhaps his "bleakest, most critical" film yet. Read @dima_flavia's review: filmsinframe.com/en/film-rev…

Jean-Luc Godard was born on this day in 1930. Two years ago, right after he died, Victor Morozov paid tribute to the director "who crossed through the history of cinema, letting himself pervaded by its flow to the same extent he generated it": filmsinframe.com/en/features…