Erick Massoto is a Brazilian writer who's always loved film and TV and loves finding connections between them. That's why he supports double features, especially if they are of a modern film paired ...

Olga Artemyeva is a film critic, screenwriter and film curator based in NYC. She has a PhD in Art History and teaches Film Studies. Her dissertaion was dedicated to the evolution of horror, and it ...

It was the opposite of love at first sight when Noe DeWitt first laid eyes on this apartment in New York City's historic Gilsey House building. "I walked in and I literally said, 'Absolutely not,'" ...

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The cast holds nothing back in Gaspar Noe’s “Love,” but it’s the ever-provocative writer-director who exposes the most in his sexually explicit, semi-autobiographical Cannes scandal-in-the-making, a ...

“When I saw ‘Straw Dogs’ I walked out during the rape scene,” the French director says, on the occasion of his own film's 20th-anniversary recut. Every self-respecting or self-hating cinephile has a ...

The director’s violent, sexually charged films repel as many viewers as they entrance – but at Cannes, almost everyone loved his latest, LSD-soaked dance drama Climax. So where did he go wrong? The ...

Gaspar Noé's latest plunge into hell starts off as a depraved youth dance musical, and it's an arresting one. Then it all goes — yes — straight to hell. Gaspar Noé is a filmmaker who literally wants ...