In This Issue:
FEATURES:
What You See in the Film Is What I Found: An Interview with Frederick Wiseman by Sam C. Mac
Shattered Camaraderie: Revisiting Michael Roemer’s Vengeance Is Mine by Joshua Peinado
Movies for a Free Person: A Conversation with the Cast & Crew of The Sweet East by Conor Truax
Digital Noir Prophecies in The Canyons and The Counselor by Mike Thorn
A Certain Circularity: An Interview with Fernando Frias by Joshua Bogatin
Red Sea International Film Festival Coverage by Joshua Bogatin
Hallmark and Beyond: Quick Takes on a Selection of 2023 Holiday Films
KICKING THE CANON:
Millennium Mambo (Hou Hsiao-hsien) by Fred Barrett
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Peter Jackson) by Joshua Polanski
FILM REVIEWS:
Release Week: November 27 – December 1
in water (Hong Sang-soo) by Ryan Swen // Godzilla Minus One (Takashi Yamazaki) by Esmé Holden // Eileen (William Oldroyd) by Selina Lee // The Daughters of Fire (Pedro Costa) by Daniel Gorman // White River (Ma Xue) by Joshua Polanski // Silent Night (John Woo) by Matt Lynch // A Male (Fabián Hernández) by Steven Warner // Raging Grace (Paris Zarcilla) by Daniel Gorman // Last Suspect (Zhang Mo) by Noel Oakshot //
Release Week: December 4 – December 8
Poor Things (Yorgos Lanthimos) by Morris Yang // Leave the World Behind (Sam Esmail) by Andrew Dignan // The Peasants (DK Welchman & Hugh Welchman) by Joshua Polanski // La Chimera (Alice Rohrwacher) by Ryan Swen // Total Trust (Zhang Jialing) by Noel Oakshot // Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget (Sam Fell) by Esmé Holden // Origin (Ava DuVernay) by Travis DeShong // The Three Musketeers: Part I: — D’artagnan (Martin Bourboulon) by Joshua Peinado // Concrete Utopia (Um Tae-hwa) by Andrew Dignan // The Boy and the Heron (Hayao Miyazaki) by Matt McCracken // Mr. Monk’s Last Case (Randy Zisk) by Greg Cwik // The Last Wife (Victor Vu) by Joshua Polanski
Release Week: December 11 – December 15
Rebel Moon — Part One: Child of Fire (Zack Snyder) by Matt Lynch // The Zone of Interest (Jonathan Glazer) by Lawrence Garcia // American Fiction (Cord Jefferson) by Andrew Dignan // Trailer of a Film that Will Never Exist: Phony Wars (Jean-Luc Godard) by Daniel Gorman // Finestkind (Brian Helgeland) by Zachary Goldkind // Wonka (Paul King) by Travis DeShong // Godard Cinema (Cyril Leuthy) by Daniel Gorman // Time Bomb Y2K (Marley Mcdonald & Brian Becker) by Daniel Gorman
Release Week: December 18 – December 22
Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (James Wan) by Matt Lynch // The Iron Claw (Sean Durkin) by Andrew Dignan // All of Us Strangers (Andrew Haigh) by Lawrence Garcia // Memory (Michel Franco) by Conor Truax // Society of the Snow (J.A. Bayona) by Andrew Dignan // A Murder at the End of the World (Brit Marling & Zal Batmanglij) by Morris Yang
Release Week: December 25 – December 29
Ferrari (Michael Mann) by Brad Hanford // The Color Purple (Blitz Bazawule) by Andrew Dignan // The Teachers’ Lounge (Ilker Çatak) by Andrew Dignan // Freud’s Last Session (Matthew Brown) by Joshua Peinado // The Crime is Mine (François Ozon) by Andrew Reichel
