Thomas Butt is a senior writer. An avid film connoisseur, Thomas actively logs his film consumption on Letterboxd and vows to connect with many more cinephiles through the platform. He is immensely ...
It seemed this year that if any artist was due for the retrospective treatment, it was “Unbroken” cinematographer Roger Deakins. While I of course did not address all of the 50-plus films he has shot ...
More internal struggle than a traditional narrative and propelled by a hypnotic score by Philip Glass and cinematography by the legendary Roger Deakins, Martin Sorsese’s 1997 film “Kundun” is an epic ...
For a man who trained in the priesthood before becoming a filmmaker it's perhaps no surprise that Martin Scorsese was drawn to make the film Kundun, the story of the fourteenth Dalai Lama of Tibet, a ...
Discover What’s Streaming On: The French filmmaking great Jean Renoir took to India in 1951 for The River, the country’s first color production and his last under the auspices of Hollywood. The studio ...
This article is part of Portrait Mode, a Slate pop-up series about biopics. Martin Scorsese’s 1997 film Kundun is famous mostly for being unknown, or at least unseen. Kundun is the ne plus ultra of ...
Screenwriter Melissa Mathison, whose enormously successful “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial” became a landmark in film history, specialized in stories revolving around children. But, as she often said, she ...
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