Art house cinema trusts audiences with difficulty: slow burns, open endings, and form as meaning. This tag collects reviews of art house films and essays on what patience buys a viewer.
1930sJune 6, 2026
Characters appear and vanish. Vampyr earns its 8 as the strangest, dreamiest, and most genuinely uncanny vampire film ever made, a 1932 work by the Danish master Carl Theodor Dreyer that abandons plot and logic in favor of pure nightmare.
1970sJune 6, 2026
Werner Herzog remakes Murnau as a tragedy, and Klaus Kinski's Dracula is the genre's saddest monster. The vampire here is not merely frightening.
1970sJune 6, 2026
Paul Morrissey reimagines Dracula as a dying aristocrat starving for virgin blood in a changed world. The film's central joke is also its central tragedy.
2020sJune 6, 2026
Robert Eggers brings obsessive period craft to the third great Nosferatu, with a ferocious Lily-Rose Depp at its center. Nosferatu earns its 8 as the most beautiful and uncompromising vampire film in years, Robert Eggers bringing his obsessive period craft…
1990sJune 6, 2026
Nadja earns its 6.5 as a singular artifact of nineties downtown independent cinema, a black-and-white art-house vampire film that filters the Dracula. Michael Almereyda made it cheaply in 1994 with Hollywood backing from David Lynch, who also appears in a…
1980sJune 6, 2026
Judged as a complete film it is mediocre. Vamp earns its 5.5 as a stylish, uneven eighties horror comedy that is worth seeing almost entirely for one unforgettable element, Grace Jones as a vampire stripper who never speaks a word…
2010sMay 19, 2026
The production received exceptional access to the otherwise sealed cave, with Herzog's small crew filming the paintings using lightweight equipment that conventional documentary could not deploy. Cave of Forgotten Dreams shows how documentary could function through treatment of material whose…
2000sMay 19, 2026
Wong Kar-wai's 2000 1960s Hong Kong romance. In the Mood for Love is Wong Kar-wai's 2000 Hong Kong romantic drama depicting the unconsummated relationship between Chow Mo-wan and Su Li-zhen, neighbors in 1962 Hong Kong who discover their respective spouses…
1970sMay 17, 2026
Tarkovsky's 1979 Soviet SF film. Two and a half slow hours that justify every minute.
1990sMay 17, 2026
Kiarostami's 1997 Iranian drama. A man drives around Tehran looking for someone to bury him after his suicide.
1960s
1980sMay 17, 2026
Bergman's 1982 Swedish family epic. Fanny and Alexander is Ingmar Bergman's 1982 Swedish family epic and the work the director intended as the conclusion to his cinema career.
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