Credit where it’s due: Dane Komljen is one uncompromising director. After his debut feature, 2016’s All the Cities of the North, enjoyed widespread acclaim from…
“An ode to cinema” — an audacious claim with which to open one’s feature, but audacity courses through the work of Mosotho filmmaker Lemohang Jeremiah…
“Arkhitekton” in Greek — “master builder” in English. The world that we humans have created around us is a world of stone; cold, stoic, though…
Sometimes, all it takes is a platform. The rubble of an abandoned village can be a platform for a flag, the flag a symbol of…
Jaime Rosales’ Morlaix opens with a montage: open rural landscapes stretching over hills and fields, cut through by roads and paths. Then, a sleepy town,…
Nothing elicits an emotional response quite like a shock. Things hit harder when you haven’t had time to prepare for them — the funniest jokes,…
The rousing action epic may seem, in the age of bloated superhero flicks and video game adaptations, a thing of cinema’s past. If, for example,…
Movies about the music industry can be a tough pitch. Selling a superstar artist as just that demands either the savviest ear for commercially viable…
There are filmmakers so dominant that you can detect their influence in the works of other filmmakers throughout the years, around the world — Ford,…
There is no creation without destruction, no light without darkness. When the great colonial powers (great as in imposing, not as in good) of centuries…
A white person adrift in an “exotic” land, losing themselves in order to find themselves in the perceived primitiveness, peculiarity, or freedom of their strange…
Much has changed in the world over the past 10 years. A worsening environmental crisis has decimated the way of life for millions of people.…
Not all cinema exists to tell a story. Certain filmmakers may refer to themselves as storytellers, and certain writers on may claim that the story…
If there’s one place in the world you’d want to make your debut, it’s France. Louise Courvoisier’s Holy Cow opens with a string of company…
Since the release of his first short film, Heroes Never Die, 35 years ago, Alain Guiraudie has gradually built a reputation as one of world…
“We know not this thing as it is in itself, but only know its appearances.” – Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics That Will…
“How would you define Black genius?” So comes the question from Questlove at the top of his documentary SLY LIVES!, posed to a remarkable assortment…