Edition 24 — Week of October 24, 2026
Set against Paris' oldest bridge, the Pont Neuf, while it was closed for repairs, this film is a love story between two young vagrants: Alex, a would be circus performer addicted to alcohol and sedatives and Michele, a painter driven to a life on the streets because of a failed relationship and an affliction which is slowly turning her blind.
While I can't imagine why we'd want another Dracula, this one's sturdy enough.
— John Leonard, New York Magazine/Vulture
After Jonathan Harker attacks Dracula at his castle, the vampire travels to a nearby city, where he preys on the family of Harker's fiancée. The only one who may be able to protect them is Dr. van Helsing, Harker's friend and fellow-student of vampires, who is determined to destroy Dracula, whatever the cost.
Director F.W. Murnau makes a Faustian pact with a vampire to get him to star in his 1922 film "Nosferatu."
Several friends travel to Sweden to study as anthropologists a summer festival that is held every ninety years in the remote hometown of one of them. What begins as a dream vacation in a place where the sun never sets, gradually turns into a dark nightmare as the mysterious inhabitants invite them to participate in their disturbing festive activities.
When an estranged friend spontaneously arrives in Melbourne from Sydney, two girls spend a weekend confronting their personal struggles, existential dread, and the messy realities of growing up and growing apart.
A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-century teenage warrior. On trial for claiming she'd spoken to God, Jeanne d'Arc is subjected to inhumane treatment and scare tactics at the hands of church court officials. Initially bullied into changing her story, Jeanne eventually opts for what she sees as the truth. Her punishment, a famously brutal execution, earns her perpetual martyrdom.
The irony is that LaBute (revising a screenplay by Laura Jones) has added syrup to the romances and drained out the danger.
— Charlotte O'Sullivan, Sight & Sound
Suffocated by its fussy script and uptight characters, this musty adaptation is all the more annoying since it's been packaged and sold back to us by Hollywood.
— Jamie Russell, BBC.com
A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he suspects that a man is involved. But gradually, he finds out more and more strange behaviors and bizarre incidents that indicate something more than a possessed love affair.
130 million people take road trips every year. 15,400 of them are never seen again.
2012
An objectionable comedy about disappointment and forgiveness.
In the years before World War II, a tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey is hired as a governess in the home of a widowed naval captain with seven children and brings a new love of life and music into the home.
1990
The most frightening thing about Jacob Singer's nightmare is that he isn't dreaming.
1999
An unforgettable journey into the realm of the heart.
"Japanese New Wave Deep DivePart Two: Yoshishige "Kiju" Yoshida"Revolutionaries are not just those who bring about the revolution, but those who support it."
"I suppose I shouldn't be surprised. I love a Halloween special, and this is a very good one."
"But unfortunately, even wearing my most generous critical goggles, I cannot resuscitate the reputation of this film. It is as bad as people feared, or maybe, hoped it would be."
"Violence is often filmed from a distance, cinematically engaging to be sure but with visceral excitement deemphasized."
""Maybe I'm a fake Gundam fan, but this is quickly becoming my favorite installment in the entire franchise (Witch from Mercury is next on my list)."
"Female Trouble establishes Waters as one of the great observers of America’s perverse obsession with fame and rubbernecking disasters."
"Also from the pangs of realization that fifty years out the window of opportunity still feels crushed by the call of domestic life. I turn thirty in a week. I feel introspective and a little afraid despite myself."