Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. No series on the artful use of songs in cinema would be complete without ...

Requiem for a Dream came to theaters 20 years ago. To celebrate Lionsgate has completely remastered the film for an all-new 4K Ultra HD director’s cut release. But updated visuals weren’t the only ...

Seven years after releasing their last studio album, Metallica are raging back with a gut-punching new song, “Lux Æterna,” which is Latin for “eternal light” and part of the Catholic requiem mass.

Cinematic provocateurs have flourished at the Cannes Film Festival for years, with everyone from Jean-Luc Godard to Lars von Trier coming to the Croisette with works designed to provoke, confront or ...