Proving again that no man is a prophet in his own land, much heralded Russian film Leviathan, a Golden Globe winner and an Academy Award nominee, missed out on the top prize in its homeland. At the ...

CANNES, France (AP) — Amid unrest in eastern Ukraine and a return to Cold War-like politics, a powerful satire that depicts local corruption in Vladimir Putin’s Russia has stormed the Cannes Film ...

CANNES — Sony Pictures Classics has acquired U.S. and Canada rights to “Leviathan,” Russian master Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Cannes competition sensation which has proved one of the most applauded films in ...

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 ...

A big winner on the international festival circuit and Russia’s official Oscar entry, “Leviathan” doesn’t turn out to be quite as scathing an attack on Putin era chicanery as has been advertised. It’s ...

Well, sometimes some confusion can be a good thing. When I was first aware of this film’s title, I thought that this may be a remake/reboot of the 1989 Peter Weller starring monster thriller with a ...

Half of the hustle and bustle surrounding arthouse cinema can be generalized in one sentence: put some fancy terms like identity, modernity, and duality together with nudity, and you will get a ...