Los Angeles Festival of Movies (LAFM) wrapped its third edition a couple weeks ago, and festival co-founders Micah Gottlieb and Sarah Winshall have made incremental…
With Peter Hujar’s Day, writer-director Ira Sachs reteams with actor Ben Whishaw, trading the contemporary Paris of Passages (2023) for 1974 Manhattan. Whishaw stars as…
The erotic thriller has encountered a resurgence in popularity of late, partly due to how well the genre plays at home, making it ideal escapism…
Greek filmmaker Athina Rachel Tsangari’s work has always defied easy classification. In Harvest, her fourth and most ambitious feature, villager accents and clothing, along with…
Eugene Kotlyarenko is a filmmaker invested in making sense of our current technology-driven world. His camera frame often has live action footage sharing the screen…
After 2021’s El Planeta, Amalia Ulman ups the ante with her second feature, Magic Farm, in every conceivable way. Black-and-white cinematography here gives way to…
Alexandra Simpson’s No Sleep Till is an impressionistic look at a small beach town in South Florida awaiting a large Hurricane to pass through. Simpson’s…
Universal Language opens on a static wide shot outside a French language school in snowy Winnipeg. We see the teacher grumpily trudge in late. Once…
Early in India Donaldson’s Good One, a balanced hiking trip of four is quickly cut down to three, shifting the dynamics for teenager Sam (Lily…
Cinematographer and film critic Carson Lund moves to the director’s chair with Eephus, a laid-back comedy following a ragtag group of men as they play…
Following Red Rocket in 2021, Anora marks Sean Baker’s second straight feature in competition at Cannes, and this one comes with reports of packed screenings…