An impoverished Brazilian teenager struggles for survival after the death of his mother in Alexandre Moratto's debut feature, 'Socrates.' By Frank Scheck Would that all student-affiliated projects ...

“Socrates” is the kind of downward-spiral narrative bound to sound relentlessly bleak in description. But small wonder Alex Moratto’s first feature won him the Independent Spirit “Someone to Watch” ...

Can you, or how do you, portray the action of philosophical learning on film? Well, I’m not saying that this 1971 film Socrates I ran across the other day succeeds at that, but the next time you’re ...