Most of La Bonga takes place in darkness; just flashlights serve as key lights while voices (voiceovers? diegetic?) guide the shaky frame to an invisible…
The ghosts of the Vietnam War now outrank the survivors. After fifty years, it may as well be ancient history, with Ken Burns’ recent documentary,…
As any “junkie” can tell you, at a certain point, Oxycontin stopped being Oxycontin, and many Oxy users in the United States turned to heroin.…
Laugh now, but back in the 1950s, the CIA would pay top dollar for any hint of mind control technology, leading to the mass hiring…
In 1843, Karl Marx decided he would move away from Cologne to a land that would be more open to his ideas, more open in every…
Tucked into the lap of the tributaries of the Euphrates River, the city of Babylon once towered. Hammurabi, who conquered the entirety of Southern Mesopotamia,…
“Sr.” is complex and surprising in its construction, its focus at the crossroads of love and folly and the man who constantly put them on…
In recent years, Copenhagen’s Rigshospitalet was the site of most of the major Danish royalty’s births. Last year, it was ranked the 15th best hospital…
Weird is a lovably cartoonish take on the musical biopic, but there’s simply too much dead air between its gags to keep things as funny…
What is the opposite of a Golden Age? That term, usually attributed to a civilization’s growth and stability in market and cultural forces, may not…
Michael Snow’s Wavelength still stands as the prototypical “experimental film” — perhaps the one experimental work that film studies professors will continue selecting as a stand-in for the miscellany…
Heinz Emigholz opens his latest, Slaughterhouses of Modernity, with a voice. This would have normally been shocking as Emigholz’s austere “Photography and Beyond” series of…
Blonde is visually striking and demonstrates a clear aesthetic character, but Dominik’s insistence on the dogma of his limited themes keeps it from becoming either a…
Clerks III is a fans-only venture that’s sunk by a childishness devoid of wonder and poignant moments consistently undermined by self-mockery. In Arthur Penn’s 1967 Bonnie…
Super Hero is an impressive step forward in animation for the franchise, even as its constant winking can sometimes come off as an insecure plea for…
Alex’s War is both more and less interesting than knee-jerk reactions would have it, but director Moyer undoubtedly understands that a fascinating subject is the…
In the summer of the Year without a Summer, Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein. She, her husband Percy, Lord Byron, and Byron’s physician John Polidori —…
What would it look like to adapt The Communist Manifesto to film? Thomas Paine’s Common Sense? Industrial Society and Its Future? These texts have no main characters to follow,…
On September 27, 2014, the CW Network cut animation out of their Saturday morning bloc. They were the last network to do so. It was…
Antonio di Benedetto’s novel, Zama, is renowned for its simplicity, with most paragraphs a mere sentence in length; Lucrecia Martel’s film adaptation is full of detail. Where…
Hong Sang-soo‘s first black-and-white film since 2011’s The Day He Arrives (which is indeed quite a while, considering the rate at which he works), The…