After winning the Locarno Film Festival, "Vitalina Varela" next heads to Sundance. Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Costa has emerged this century as one of the most beloved international filmmakers in the ...

From Horse Money to Colossal Youth and beyond, Pedro Costa has consistently impressed with his enigmatic and austere works, turning his camera to the disenfranchised and marginalized with his ...

Zazie Beetz and Jack Quaid announced this year’s nominees live this morning from the Samuel Goldwyn Theater. The 96th Academy Awards will air live March 10. Toronto-born director Norman Jewison, who ...

The comedy film IF starring Ryan Reynolds debuts, as well as The Strangers: Chapter 1 for horror movie lovers. Click to see all the films opening this weekend. John Krasinski shows versatility in his ...

Frequently beautiful compositions and the theatrical use of a fierce kind of artifice have long been the hallmarks of Portuguese auteur Pedro Costa, regarded by a small but influential group of ...

A funeral procession emerges from the pitch-black center of a walled cemetery outside of Lisbon. Mourners move past the camera, but no one speaks of the deceased or of anything else. For the first 10 ...

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Night is practically eternal in “Vitalina Varela,” the new picture from the Portuguese master Pedro Costa. In this vision, the barrios of Fontainhas, in Lisbon, where much of Costa’s work has been set ...

Costa's latest vision of Cape Verdean immigrants — a highlight from this year's Locarno Film Festival — is another lyrical vision of somber people confronting their past. The mystery and wonder of ...

"Vitalina Varela,” Portuguese director Pedro Costa's dark portrayal of a Cape Verde woman who flies to Lisbon to bury her husband, scooped the top prize at the Locarno film festival in Switzerland ...

Nobody makes cinema quite like Pedro Costa. Using non-professional actors, illuminated by mere slithers of light, the Portuguese auteur’s films fall somewhere between ethnography and spiritual enquiry ...