Scandal, corruption, and high-stakes power struggles play out amid imposing high-rises and glassy boardrooms in these sleekly tailored tales of office intrigue and money-hungry machinations. In the years between 1987’s Black Monday stock-market crash and 2008’s global financial meltdown, Wall Str...

A master of mood, shadow, and dreamy ambiguity, French-born director Jacques Tourneur brought a sophisticated subtlety to his celebrated work in Hollywood. His command of atmosphere and darkly poetic sensibility were particularly suited to film noir, as seen in this trio of stylish, chiaroscuro-e...

Following her blistering debut feature, YEAST (featuring a breakthrough performance by a young Greta Gerwig), Mary Bronstein directed Rose Byrne to an Academy Award nomination in her emotionally stunning maternal maelstrom IF I HAD LEGS I’D KICK YOU. In this edition of Adventures in Moviegoing, B...

Directed by Kenji Kamiyama • 2002–2003 • Japan
Starring Atsuko Tanaka, Akio Otsuka, Osamu Saka

Of the myriad adaptations of the foundational cyberpunk manga “Ghost in the Shell,” the animated TV series GHOST IN THE SHELL: STAND ALONE COMPLEX arguably comes closest to capturing the breadth, visio...

With her acclaimed debut feature, the heartbreaking family portrait BLUE HERON (in theaters this April), Canadian filmmaker Sophy Romvari builds on her early short works to reveal an astonishing cinematic sensibility exquisitely attuned to the delicate, sensory details that shape experience. Freq...

Fifty years ago, the introduction of VHS to the consumer market revolutionized the way people watched movies, bringing classics, the latest hits, obscure cult favorites, underground bootlegs, and disreputable marginalia alike into their homes with hitherto unimaginable convenience. This ode to an...