Lone Samurai Film Clip - A 13th century samurai finds himself shipwrecked on an island he believes to be deserted. As he contemplates his existence, it seems like a dignified death at his own hands ...

I get the feeling the Long Day’s Journey Into Night director saw Leos Carax’s acclaimed meta-movie Holy Motors and went into hold-my-Tsingtao mode. Just like when Carax put French actor Denis Lavant ...

The film was long and getting longer by the day. Worse still, the director was bent on shooting outdoors, on a mountainous peninsula west of Tokyo, and the rain, during the interminably long ...

Is it better for a historical film to be accurate or to be meaningful? Do films need a surrogate outsider for audiences to relate to? Why is Tom Cruise the last samurai? Spoiler … he isn’t. Cinema ...

Ring in the new year with something bold and beautiful at San Diego's last art house cinema — the Chinese film "Resurrection," opening today at Digital Gym Cinema. Chinese filmmaker Bi Gan is not for ...

Bi Gan’s “Resurrection” is trippy cinema at its best, a nearly three-hour deep dive into experimental cinema. It’s the kind of movie that plays well at festivals (it won the Special Jury prize at ...

“Resurrection,” a magnificent intoxicant of a movie from the thirty-six-year-old Chinese director Bi Gan, is no ordinary love letter to cinema. It’s more like a love labyrinth—a multi-tiered maze, ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. One of the downsides of our movie-mad filmmakers — the Quentin Tarantinos who happily plunder from cinema’s ...

Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/Dangmai Films The final segment of Resurrection plays out in a single, unbroken take that lasts a full half-hour, wending its way through a ...

The Chinese director Bi Gan, who has become a lauded fixture on the festival circuit, conjures a boundary-pushing tale that evokes moviemaking itself. By Manohla Dargis When you purchase a ticket for ...