A plaintive, largely melancholic coming-of-age story, writer-director-editor Anthony Shim documents his childhood as a Korean immigrant in 1990s Canada in the intermittently cloying but…
Jethro Tull’s long-awaited return with 2022’s The Zealot Gene — their first album in two decades — was something of a small triumph. It…
In discussing what constitutes homophobia, queer theorist Eve Sedgwick posits that “the number of persons or institutions by whom the existence of gay people…
There’s been no shortage of lamentation here at InRO about how the contemporary Hollywood studio system has mostly abandoned mid-range, mid-budget action movies in…
Shekhar Kapur’s What’s Love Got to Do With It? comes courtesy of Studio Canal and Working Title, two production companies who have created a…
Ashley McKenzie’s debut feature, Werewolf, already suggested a talent to watch in its refracted take on the addiction/relationship drama. While its dramatic sense felt…
In his 2017 film Those Who Are Fine, Cyril Schäublin provided a quiet yet jaundiced view of his home nation of Switzerland. He depicted…
Joachim Lafosse’s The Restless begins with a stranding at sea. Damien (Damien Bonnard), a rising art star at the beginning of a manic episode,…
Perennially undervalued, Joseph H. Lewis receives a single paragraph in Andrew Sarris’ canonical The American Cinema (relegated to the expressive esoterica category alongside Andre…
In This Issue: FEATURES: Prismatic Ground 2023: AIDOL / theta (Lawrence Lek) by Zach Lewis // Where Is This Street (João Pedro Rodrigues and João…
One of the more delightful, long-running series in contemporary cinema is Tsai Ming-liang’s Walker films, wherein actor Lee Kang-sheng — dressed in flowing red…
It’s easy to see into the future. All one has to do is see the present and ask what would happen if we accepted…
Part of what’s so great about the Prismatic Ground festival is that it makes space for genuine cinematic curios, works that are so sufficiently…
John Gianvito is one of the most daring experimental documentarians working today, and a new film from him is always welcome. A bit of…
The new feature from Naomi Uman is a three-part documentary portrait of life in the town of Rabdisht, Albania. Taking certain cues from experimental…
Paris’ Centre Pompidou Museum has been commissioning short works from a veritable who’s who of international filmmakers since 2015. The curators present these artists…
This year’s Prismatic Ground features a pair of films that share several procedures and concerns. Janaína Nagata’s Private Footage uses the discovery of a…
Alexandre Larose’s work is no stranger to the descriptors underlined by Impressionism, typically reflecting its aesthetic sensibilities of refracted, textured light. In fact, he…