Since his out-of-nowhere debut feature Tales from the Gimli Hospital in 1988, Winnipeg-based director Guy Maddin has become synonymous with a very particular brand…
In a way, it’s odd that Coppola decided that The Cotton Club required a concluding fantasy sequence. Yes, as a movie musical, The Cotton…
Who’s a Fredo? The Godfather Part II Against the New Right 1. In what amounts to the coda of The Godfather Part II, the…
Until 2019, the Toronto International Film Festival had a section called Masters. As you might assume, it was a space for major filmmakers with…
With four features and twice as many short films under his belt, writer-director Kazik Radwanski has become one of the leading lights of Canadian…
Because of the sheer breadth of work on display — 10 programs, with an average of seven or eight films per program — the…
Director Christoph Hochhäusler arrived on the international scene in the early aughts, as the film world began discovering a plethora of unique, formally inventive…
British filmmaker Ben Rivers is competing in the 2024 Locarno Film Festival with his newest film, Bogancloch. It is Rivers’ second feature about Jake…
In the last 10 or 15 years, the micro-universe that we call the experimental film world has made a decisive shift toward a form…
For a certain type of documentary, intimate access to one’s subject is a double-edged sword. Leila Amini’s debut film is a close look at…
There’s a good chance you’ve never heard of André Forcier, the writer-director of the new comedy Ababooned. But he is actually one of the…
Anyone who follows any artform closely — in this case, cinema, but it’s equally true for music, painting, sculpture, literature, what have you —…
The A24ification of world cinema continues apace with Brief History of a Family, a dreary Chinese genre exercise that premiered earlier this year at…
Although his name may be unfamiliar to some, Chinese director Wei Shujun has already made several feature films, including 2021’s Ripples of Life, which…
One of the hallmarks of rapid-onset social change is a general sense of confusion. We often understand that some sort of intervention is absolutely…
For several years, Austrian filmmaker Antoinette Zwirchmayr has alternated between rigorous visual filmmaking and a hybrid form of experimental narrative. She seems to be…
In Jessica Dunn Rovinelli’s newest short film, the director trains her camera on Australian critical theorist McKenzie Wark. On the audio track we hear…
Since the release of her 1995 debut feature My Sister’s Good Fortune, Angela Schanelec has become recognized as one of the most unique and…