Violet Lucca

(Gabriel Mascaro, Brazil/Uruguay/Netherlands, 2015)

In Cemetery of Splendor, Apichatpong Weerasethakul employs his entrancing language of metaphor to diagnose an ailing Thailand

What are you afraid of? And other trenchant questions raised by a performance artist's films

Open season: the dos and don'ts of long-form political satire

Who runs the dream factory? Two films that inject fantasy into Hollywood fact

Unnatural beauty: two films about female performers who can't quite take control of their image

Two for the road: the DIY director discusses the deeply personal roots of his latest, heartfelt road movie, Microbe & Gasoline

(Ciro Guerra, Colombia, 2015)

Mapmaker, Mapmaker

Built for speed and meticulously crafted, George Miller’s postapocalyptic road movie pulls out all the stops

Love is a battlefield: a reinvigorated Spike Lee can't stop the agitprop, but he keeps tripping over his depiction of women

This Just In

(Corin Hardy, Ireland/U.K., 2015)

(Naji Abu Nowar, Jordan/U.K./UAE/Qatar, 2014)

Horror show, horror tell: Guillermo del Toro’s misunderstood film revives a gothic psychological tradition, garnished with sumptuous flourishes

The New York artist retraces her steps and finds the words (and images) in Heart of a Dog

The director of The Sky Trembles and the Earth is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers talks about his hypnotic Moroccan experimental epic

From To Sleep with Anger to Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives to The Narrow Frame of Midnight, the actor-producer sets the record straight on film and history

From SXSW 2014: the director of The Mend talks about drawing on the energy and style of Cukor and Carax for his homegrown indie