The multilayered docufiction “Actor Martinez” explores where truth ends and narrative begins in its story of Denver actor Arthur Martinez and the two directors he hires to make him the star of his own ...

The Cannes selection is a haunting but ultimately life-affirming chronicle of the early days of lockdown. By the time the old project is resurrected, it comes to represent a second chance for all ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

The Gist: We open with an on-screen disclaimer that reads, “The stories you hear, you know they never add up.” That’s a Pavement lyric, and a warning about the impending unconventional narrative that ...

To take one glance at Joaquim Calçada, you might expect him to have a story as tall as his hair. Pushing 70 years of age, zipped tightly into a leather bomber as glossy and black as his shellacked ...

Georgian filmmaker Tato Kotetishvili, whose feature directorial debut, “Holy Electricity,” won the Golden Leopard in the Concorso Cineasti del Presente section at the recently wrapped Locarno Film ...

“East of Wall” is a fascinating piece of docufiction from filmmaker Kate Beecroft, who has blended footage of a South Dakota ranching family that rescues and trains horses for auction with a story ...

The debate has always been whether or not Robert J. Flaherty’s far-flung films are fiction: In his 1926 Samoan island-life epic Moana, just as in Nanook of the North, Flaherty pressed the native ...

Tonally and thematically, Pavements (now streaming on Mubi) is the cinematic distillation of the scene in the Homerpalooza episode of The Simpsons in which one apathetic Gen Xer asks another apathetic ...