Much like Helena Wittmann’s first feature, Drift — whose audaciously hypnotic visuals and elliptical narrative heralded a major directorial presence — Anthony Chen’s third…
ESSAYS JAFAR PANAHI’S POST-ARREST FILMOGRAPHY: DELIBERATING DEFIANCE FEATURE BY: Dhruv Goyal EXPLODING ART WITH ARTIFICE: WES ANDERSON’S ROALD DAHL QUARTET FEATURE BY: Anand Sudha…
With The Monk the Gun, director Pawo Choyning Dorji makes sure that viewers are fully aware of the film’s context by providing a barrage…
The year was 2005, and if it wasn’t a simpler time, the ways in which it was inane only felt obvious in hindsight. A…
In This Issue: FEATURES: Not the Other Way Around: Poor Things, From Novel to Screen by Theo Rollason Jafar Panahi’s Post-Arrest Filmography: Deliberating Defiance by…
Dear Kaita Ablaze France had the Comte de Lautréamont, a young writer who embodied the Romantic spirit even more than the Romantics, and thrust…
The spanning dramaturgy of an ensemble piece is often a precarious balancing act, determined by the intentions of a writer who seeks to utilize…
The tragic history of the Nakba — the Israeli occupation — and the resulting diaspora have led to a distinctive voice among Palestinian experimental…
Like many films gunning to establish an immediately serious tone, Angga Dwimas Sasongko’s 13 Bombs begins with sobering news reports. One newscaster outlines Indonesia’s…
The syntactically redundant title of Tomonari Nishikawa’s latest film provides a subtle hint as to what the filmmaker is up to. If one watches…
The interaction between documenting the act of filmmaking and the final film as a meaning-making document for the filmmaker, subject, and spectator is a…
France had the Comte de Lautréamont, a young writer who embodied the Romantic spirit even more than the Romantics, and thrust an entire generation’s…
With all the upheaval in recent years, it seems like there is only one constant across the film industry: producing an independent animated feature…
The subject of the poets and poetry of Hong Kong is a natural for Ann Hui, always the most literarily inclined of the great…
Pablo Marín’s cinema can be deceptively simple and deceptively complex. Having worked exclusively on 8 and 16mm celluloid, the Argentinian filmmaker has gravitated, as…
Although its title might suggest otherwise, the breakfast food most prominently employed as a metaphor in Scrambled, Leah McKendrick’s directorial debut, is not eggs,…
In film scholar Gilberto Perez’s incredibly perceptive book on the ontology of cinema, The Material Ghost, the moving pictures are always, well, moving: between…
The cinema of Matthew Vaughn could quite possibly be the most insufferable currently being financed by Hollywood. Say what you will about the MCU…