With his third feature film, The Things You Kill, Iranian-born filmmaker Alireza Khatami turns his perspicacious gaze away from the overtly political themes of Oblivion…
A promotional email hit my inbox last month that cut through the static fuzz, the torrential downpour of inbox shit, and caught me off guard.…
During my short self-directed crash course on Argentine cinema last month, I was surprised how little had been written in English on the subject. There…
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…
Following in a famous parent’s footsteps isn’t easy. Do you embrace the legacy? Do you carve out something new entirely? What happens when that famous…
This evening, like every evening, you settle in to listen to a song from Cole Porter’s songbook. There is nothing like the sharp lash of…
Before she directed a feature of her own, Paula González-Nasser spent years location scouting for shoots in New York City. It turned out to be…
In Mare’s Nest, director Ben Rivers takes us through a world moving beyond language. Inspired, in part, by a one-act play by Don DeLillo, Mare’s…
After a night on the town, her two guy friends, Mitch (Colin Burgess) and Noah (Kevin Grossman), try to take Rayna’s (Blu Hunt) keys so…
First, on griots: these were the African Mande people’s historians, genealogists, poets, and court jesters. They were the official storytellers, and, as writers of their…
It’s mid-September, a broadcast TV network is on the brink of a merger, and an evening news segment could blow up these lucrative plans and…
With the ever prolific Romanian auteur delivering banger after banger at breakneck speed, it shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone that 2025 is another…
The biography of an artist is an artist’s nemesis. It aims a howitzer at artists and the body of their work. In its illuminating, explicatory…
The “end of the world” feels close for a group of Japanese teenagers in Neo Sora’s debut feature Happyend. Set in the not so distant…
Traditionally, dramas dealing with characters moving on from relationships follow a three-part structure: the chronicling of the youthful highs of the first passionate relationship and…
Siyou Tan’s debut feature, Amoeba, screened at the Toronto International Film Festival under its Discovery section, introducing a fresh and candid new voice in Singaporean…
It’s nothing less than a miracle that restorations of Margarida Cordeiro and António Reis’ criminally underseen Tras-os-Montes, Ana, and Rosa de Areia are making their…
Opening on a failed suicide attempt, you’d never expect to dovetail into a charming and winding meet-cute over the course of a Christmas Eve. Yet…
“You tell me things I never found in Plato or Hegel.” Romantic expressions like this abound in Isiah Medina’s latest, Gangsterism, a film noir set…
“I HATE YOU ALL.” So begins Gangsterism, Isiah Medina’s latest film. Lest one doubt his sincerity, the poster is tagged with a statement of intent:…