At the same time as we have a President preaching “America First,” that most American of cultural institutions, the Oscars, is going international at a dramatically quickening pace. It’s finally ...

Shockingly, it took until the final year of this seminal decade for another foreign language film to score a best picture Oscar nomination. The feature accomplishing this feat was "Z," a Costa-Gavras ...

The Oscars' recent support of foreign-language cinema marks one of the most rapid taste turnarounds for the awards body in recent history. By the numbers: Before "Parasite" broke the foreign-language ...

They (probably) won’t be nominated for Oscars this year, but they sure as hell deserve to be…. Can we use this thread as a reference for the performances in Foreign Language Films that ought to be ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

During his 2020 Academy Award acceptance speech for Best Picture, “Parasite” director Bong Joon Ho said, “Once you overcome the one-inch tall barrier of subtitles, you will be introduced to so many ...

With the 78th Cannes International Film Festival underway this week, there is little doubt that one topic will be central to conversations among filmmakers, sales agents and journalists: United States ...

To say that mainstream cinema is at an inflection point would perhaps be disingenuous, as the last few years have seen many massive blockbusters like Top Gun: Maverick, Barbie and Avatar: The Way of ...