No Wave legend Beth B’s latest project, Glowing, is something like a short story cycle. Beth B previously made eight short works about friends and…
Despite crediting the scholar and film critic Andrei Rus as a co-director, the latest and possibly trolliest Radu Jude film is really more of an…
At 87 minutes, Jean-Claude Rousseau’s Last Stop for the Circular Ticket is the longest film he’s made since his 1995 masterpiece The Enclosed Valley, but…
Jaws: the New Hollywood movie that began to end them all by creating summer blockbusters, the origin point for practically every bad urban legend about…
Steven Spielberg’s latest venture into science fiction is also perhaps his most extensive venture into examining the properties and powers of the cross-cut. Emily Blunt…
The first entry of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s BRD Trilogy and one of the last titles he made in the 1970s, the decade he’d defined with…
Patrick Wang has been operating on his own terms since his filmmaking career began in 2011 with In the Family. The nearly three-hour story of…
Not Arthur Rimbaud, but A. Rimbaud. The title of Patrick Wang’s latest film is the skeleton key that unlocks the principles behind its approach to…
Living in Brazil in a post-Bolsonaro world clearly feels dystopian to director Gabriel Mascaro, who has now made two consecutive films about a near-future where…
With most established classics of cinema, it only takes a little work to extrapolate what each sequence is meant to convey to the viewer, but…
When Chinese mixed media artist Zhou Tao had his critical breakout with The Periphery of the Base in 2024, it seemed like he had conjured…
Italian-American documentarian Gianfranco Rosi has been making films for 30 years, but they’ve never quite been entirely about what is shown on the screen. His…
Luis Buñuel didn’t think much of the Joseph Kessel novel that was the source material for his 1967 adaptation of Belle de Jour and mostly…
Leave it to Gus Van Sant to find the homoeroticism in the Tony Kiritsis story. The man who wanted five million dollars and an apology…
Married directorial pair Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani have consistently risked being hit by the type of criticism that considers “postmodernism” a dirty word. Many…
Of all the classics directed by Yasujirō Ozu, 1949’s Late Spring is not only the one that kickstarted his most fruitful creative period that would…
The world of Terence Davies’ Distant Voices, Still Lives is shown to have disappeared into the amber hues of the past right from the start,…
Radu Jude is aiming for nothing less than the grand finale of vampire movies with his Dracula, and as a Romanian, why shouldn’t he lay…
Fields of Vision is the title for the fifth Currents program at NYFF this year, and it’s an appropriate title for the five short films…
Sharon Lockhart adds 12 more static master shots to her filmography with Windward, but that doesn’t mean she isn’t finding new ideas for how to…
Who among us can’t relate to Samuel Beckett’s post-apocalyptic word-worlds at the moment? The answer is apparently those who are too blind to see. El…