Will Noah

Pedro Costa & Lisbon's Cabo Verdeans

Pedro Costa’s latest film takes as its title the name of its lead actor and protagonist, but for the first ten minutes, she’s nowhere to be seen.

Roberto Gavaldón: Mexico’s Auteur of Noir

The Golden Age of Mexican cinema began soon after the arrival of sound in the early 1930s and ended sometime between the mid-1950s and the early 1960s, depending on who’s telling the story. Camped out somewhere in that landscape is Roberto Gavaldón, the subject of a thirteen-film retrospective now playing at MoMA.