Back in the winter, the film Companion used the premise of a young “couple” taking their first trip together to a secluded house in the countryside as…
Copper In director Nicolás Pereda’s Copper, Lázaro (Pereda regular Lázaro Rodríguez) discovers a corpse by the side of the road. It’s unusual enough for him…
In director Nicolás Pereda’s Copper, Lázaro (Pereda regular Lázaro Rodríguez) discovers a corpse by the side of the road. It’s unusual enough for him to…
“I understood that this had little to do with Berlin and everything to do with me,” the unnamed narrator of Lauren Oyler’s Fake Accounts proffers…
Contemporary cinema has been overtaken by analog textures for quite some time. Combined with the wide variety of formats they appropriate — Super 8, 35mm,…
Jaime Rosales’ Morlaix opens with a montage: open rural landscapes stretching over hills and fields, cut through by roads and paths. Then, a sleepy town,…
Popular depiction of the Soviet Union used to hinge on the Cold War’s ideological expediencies, and only with the country’s dissolution in 1991 was there…
The extraction of minerals from the Congo has been an ongoing colonial expedition since the Belgian king, Leopold II, personally annexed the country’s land via…
Filmmakers working under the constraints of an oppressive regime must become very good at leaving things unsaid. The main ideas are often relegated to the…
Assaf Gruber’s Miraculous Accident provides us with what we might wish to distinguish as one of the first contemporary Jewish anti-Zionist fiction projects. With this,…
Like many of you, I first discovered the French New Wave as a budding cinephile in high school. It was my introduction to how the…
Alexandra Simpson’s debut feature, No Sleep Till, is hardly a typical disaster movie. There’s no panicked fleeing, no looting, no screaming and crying. Her approach…
Pilgrims, Laurynas Bareiša’s previous feature, was an accomplished debut that explored a man’s inability to move past the senseless killing of his brother. It showed…
Nothing elicits an emotional response quite like a shock. Things hit harder when you haven’t had time to prepare for them — the funniest jokes,…
What can we understand as agency, for individuals placed into contexts that are fabricated in dehumanizing forms? How does the capacity for someone to willfully…
“He that diggeth a pit, shall fall into it.” — Ecclesiastes 10:8 They called him Von, the man in whom lived so many. Von Schnieditz, von…
A goat gives birth; a paraplegic man’s soul leaves his body. In between, life and the flesh are one. Such appears to be the order…
The exorcism and possession subgenre has been at a creative stall basically since its heyday in the 1970s. The panoply of genre tropes looks more…
Over the course of her filmography, Jessica Sarah Rinland has demonstrated an unusually perceptive eye for the natural world and its inhabitants. Her camera’s fascination…
When the world turned to shit approximately five years ago, satire marched ahead, determined to outpace the banality of lived reality. Old-school broadcasts and appeals…
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