The word “realism” has come to describe movies that keep to an expected set of stylistic markers: a focus on average, middle-to-lower-class people; an unfussy naturalism; a concern with the struggles ...

Move over, Citizen Kane. There’s a new best film ever, according to the most recent Sight & Sound poll. Sight and Sound’s poll is considered a bellwether of changing cinematic tastes. The naming of ...

Chantal Akerman’s 1975 masterpiece Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles was declared the greatest film of all time in the prestigious British Film Institute’s “Sight and Sound” poll, to ...

I vividly remember the cold winter evening in Delhi at the International Film Festival of India in 1976 when I saw Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080, Bruxelles. It has topped ...

A lot of life is boring. Well, maybe not boring, but pedestrian. Rote and pedestrian. We wash ourselves, earn money, run errands, buy stuff, and prepare our sustenance. So-called “slow cinema” can ...

Move over, Citizen Kane. There’s a new best film ever, according to the most recent Sight & Sound poll. Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (usually shortened to ...