Wicker, the latest film from Save Yourselves! directors Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson, is a film both steeped in the romantic fantasies of old…
Lee Chang-dong retrospective…
Breathing in Angela Schanelec’s world may be one of the most ineffable experiences still available to us in contemporary cinema: the sensation of drifting among…
MoMA’s screening series “Long Live the Underground!” is a celebration in honor of two esteemed New York institutions. The Film-Makers’ Cooperative, founded in 1961, was…
A young woman walks through a field of white flowers, suspended for a moment with neither origin nor destination, seemingly fallen to earth in Carlos…
Under the aegis of the recently formed specialty label Clockwork, Warner Bros. Pictures is finally releasing a full restoration of Ken Russell’s The Devils in…
50 years after gathering the Harlem Renaissance’s brightest minds in Duke Ellington’s townhouse, and a decade after his death, William Greaves’ magnum opus, Once Upon…
Herman Yau has always courted the transgressive. One of the key names in Hong Kong’s early-to-mid-’90s exploitation scene, his Category III films (the strictest rating…
In the early 1990s, Derek Jarman’s career was at a crucial inflection point. The BBC was starting to fund feature films, and Derek’s angry, queer…
The thematic programs in MoMA’s retrospective commemorating the Film-Makers’ Cooperative and Millennium Film Workshop are generally grouped around certain political (“Make Love Not War”), poetic…
Ted Fendt’s films have always had a proclivity for the esoteric; analog film stocks, long takes, conversation amongst intellectuals, 20th-century novels. Yet they remain primarily…
My Undesirable Friends: Part 2 – Exile picks up right where Par 1 – Last Air in Moscow left off: Russia is a little over…
Fourteen years ago, Dan Sallitt burst into the indie film scene with his transgressive, funny, and ultimately sweet, The Unspeakable Act. It wasn’t Sallitt’s first…
Ever-present on those pesky “most disturbing movies” lists, Begotten almost became a victim of its own success. The film’s demiurge, God Killing Himself, adorns the…
The United States of America is a drag queen. Drunk, dressed in her shiniest finery, and thickly rouged, the American empire according to Jack Smith…
My prewar apartment building in Queens has a mind of its own when it comes to temperature regulation. As another nor’easter batters the city, you…
Parsing the cinema’s relation to sound, Gilles Deleuze once wrote, “…the sound as well as visual elements of the image enter into internal relations which…
You’d think it would be impossible to create a new vision of death and the afterlife after more than a century of cinematic depictions. A…
The image of a lone warrior holding a child is baked into cinema’s fabric. From Lone Wolf and Cub to Hard Boiled, it’s iconography that…
I recently had the good fortune to screen Macedonian writer-director Leon Ristov’s short film Nikola, Nikola, which had its World Premiere in June at the…
One of the earliest scenes in supernatural horror movie Never After Dark is of everyday familial intimacy — as a young woman drives along a…