Needless to say, deliberately titling your film Bone Lake will automatically trigger suggestive connotations about the film’s potential content. Will the feature consist of a…
Critiquing the directorial efforts of well-known actors is trickier than it seems. For example, it’s impossible to ignore, especially at a festival as prestigious and…
Is This Thing On? Now three movies and seven years into his career as a filmmaker, the Philly transplant/West Village resident Bradley Cooper has featured…
Now three movies and seven years into his career as a filmmaker, the Philly transplant/West Village resident Bradley Cooper has featured a singer, a composer,…
As far as the so-called Berlin School is concerned, the films of Ulrich Köhler have mostly led a somewhat peripheral existence — which is less…
Plenty of films have traversed the anxieties of separation and national identity, specifically the question of what happens when a nation breaks up from within,…
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…
The ceiling caves in at the outset of If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, the Rose Byrne-starring second feature from Mary Bronstein, her first…
For an age in which the threat of nuclear annihilation is so unmistakably present, it strikes one as quite strange how so few contemporary filmmakers…
Vijay Sethupathi is certainly the most versatile and interesting, not to mention basely pleasurable, “superstar” still kicking in the world cinema. His early performances for…
In his 1998 monograph on gay male identification with the Broadway musical, Place for Us: Essay on the American Musical, D.A. Miller identifies the archetypal…
Göran Olsson’s Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989 is a remarkable documentary, if not purely for its access to decades worth of newsreels, interviews, and…
Following the critical success of 2018’s The Wolf House, directoral duo Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña have returned with The Hyperboreans, a papier-mâché melange of…
“Why do you want to dance?” a character asks Moira Shearer’s aspiring ballerina in Powell and Pressburger’s The Red Shoes. “Why do you want to…
After the massive success of John Milius’ Conan the Barbarian in 1982, an avalanche of cheap sword-and-sorcery pictures flowed forth, eager to cash in on…
As Solvent commences, we’re dropped into a GoPro’s eye view on the setup of Gunner S. Holbrook (voiced by Jon Gries) and his private recovery…
In retrospect, maybe it doesn’t seem all that weird that 1982’s TRON has turned into a nostalgia-coated franchise with a lot of barely-baked ideas about…
Raoul Peck’s latest documentary certainly has timeliness going for it. There is of course a rise of authoritarianism around the world, a set of schemes…
No Other Choice “It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.” – Frederic Jameson No one seems to enjoy…
“It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.” – Frederic Jameson No one seems to enjoy the world we…
Sympathetic portrayals of kids who’ve fallen into a life of crime have been commonplace in the arthouse circuit since at least the days of Italian…