It’s difficult to think of a more cynical, creatively stagnant genre than the celebrity musical biopic. Seriously, even the comic book movies will produce the…
Written and directed by Erblin Nushi, I Love You More is a delicate film which explores the heartbreak of queer adolescence. The film centers on…
Kimi Takesue’s third feature film is a fraught, respectably reflexive process in objectification. Utilizing the much ado of the tourism industry as our subject (through…
It wouldn’t be unfair to observe that plenty of indie films today seem more concerned with the representative modes of filmmaking and storytelling than anything…
Stan Brakhage’s 1958 film Anticipation of the Night could perhaps be likened to the late-19th and early-20th century tonal compositions of Arnold Schoenberg. In works…
That hunk in the romance novel you’re reading — what if he was real and ready to mingle? That’s the entertaining and confident premise of…
Thanks to recent advancements, space travel, once reserved for the world’s elite pilots and engineers, has become something any person with bookoo cash can achieve.…
There’s no dearth of movies about prehistoric man; stories of the earliest days of (pre)civilization span the campy histrionics of something like 10,000 BC to the more…
The familiar quietude of vacant alleys, secret crooks, and empty restaurants; those shared moments of unspoken reminiscence and silenced discovery. With Here, Bas Devos trains…
Diablo Cody is at it again with Lisa Frankenstein, the feature directing debut of actress Zelda Williams that finds the screenwriter returning to the thematically…
Steppenwolf Kazakh filmmaker Adilkhan Yerzhanov has directed 15 films in the last 12 years, a breakneck pace to rival even Hong Sang-soo. Not many seem…
“Not a day elapsed which did not bring us news of the decease of some acquaintance. Then, as the fatality increased, we learned to expect…
The last decade has seen disillusionment and negativity about feature filmmaking expand from the grumblings of enthusiasts to a near-universal consensus that they’re not making…
yours, is an anthology piece commissioned by Kunstencentrum Nona (Nona Arts Center) to pay tribute to Chantal Akerman — a titan of durational and feminist…
Gábor Reisz’s latest film is Hungarian through and through, but despite that, it feels very much like a sanded-down Romanian one. In fact, some of…
Given the current, extremely complicated relationship between Hong Kong and China, it’s perhaps surprising that Choy Ji’s film (his debut feature) Borrowed Time made it…
Speculative fiction tends to valorize the unreality of utopianism more than the concreteness of dystopian realism, and perhaps intuitively so: in the act of speculating,…
Christopher Jason Bell has been making movies on the margin, funded only by himself and shot with a small crew as and when they can,…
Much like Helena Wittmann’s first feature, Drift — whose audaciously hypnotic visuals and elliptical narrative heralded a major directorial presence — Anthony Chen’s third film,…
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 NOT…
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 of…