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As the fifth volume of Focal Press's exceedingly readable and loving exploratory series of the filmmaking process, Mike Goodridge's FilmCraft: Directing follows the success...

If you think Glen Basner's Filmnation Ent. had a stellar year last year, 2012 is the cherry on the sundae with John Hillcoat and...

And the tradition continues here on IONCINEMA.com. Our twice daily critical snapshot of the Main Competition selected films (22 films in all, plus the...

Herzog likewise reduces cinema to its most basic expressive formula: using the medium of the camera to transform the literal, untouched reality before us into something estranging and miraculous. ‘Cave’ accomplishes what all great art strives to do: wrench us from out of the entrenched armor of our mundane solipsisms and give us a glimpse of the eternal. The mutated albino alligator writhing aimlessly in a vast, expensive simulation, its natural impulses irrelevant and forgotten, is the perfect symbol for contemporary humanity. Herzog ominously warns us all: “The site is expanding.”

Plastic surgery meets spiritual rebirth in Almodovar’s demented, delightful fable