‘Black Narcissus’ is a colonizer’s fever dream, taking viewers inside the mind of the Orientalist who simultaneously rejects and lusts after the ‘uncivilized.'…
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Filled with catchy music and charismatic stars in the making, this outburst of glorious chaos is an underseen gem of Australian cinema.…
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'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' is a lasting testament to cultural damage of Hays Code censorship.…
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The minimalist visuals and Ryuichi Sakamoto’s otherworldly score make this adaptation of a Haruki Murakami short story create music even in the echoing emptiness.…
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Wes Craven's debut exploitation horror shocked audiences with the intensity of brutality befalling a typical American family, and it continues to remind us how violence and terror are never far from home.…
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A study of the films 'La Chinoise' and 'Black Panthers,' and how they illustrate the difference between Black and white radicalism.…
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In isolation, home might feel like the last safe place there is — yet home invasion stories still have a strange appeal.…
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D.A. Pennebaker’s matchless 1970 documentary films the exhausting recording of a Broadway cast album, and captures the resilience of theater’s artistic spirit in the process.…
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In all their prickliness, pettiness, and imperfection, Nicole Holofcener’s films put complicated women at their center.…
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The Film Daze team takes a trip inside the Criterion Closet and detail our favorite picks.…
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