Joseph Ornelas is a former freelance features writer at Collider, where he explored the worlds of film and television through in-depth essays, lists, and analysis. Passionate about storytelling across ...

During the shooting of The Virgin Spring, we were up in the northern province of Dalarna in May and it was early one morning, about half past 7. The landscape there is rugged, and our company was ...

(Ingmar Bergman, 1960). One of the most powerful of the Swedish master’s disquisitions on “the silence of God,” this cruel tale of rape and revenge, set in medieval Sweden, when the population was ...

With his debut feature, “Armand,” Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel wants to step out of his revered grandfather’s shadow. (Though the movie still contains a secret tribute.) By Carlos Aguilar The history of ...

Be that as it may, The Last House on the Left managed to defy its accusations of meritless smear and become not just a cult classic, but the herald to an era of more intellectual and auteur-driven ...

Two foreign films last week were embroiled in sizzling moral controversy—not in the supposedly Puritan-minded U.S., but on their own home ground. ¶ Jungfrukallan (The Virgin Spring), latest film by ...