Guy Maddin’s Careful is newly restored and once again bringing its unique, alpine, psycho-sexual mania to cinemagoers, who are perhaps a little better prepared for…
Il Cinema Ritrovato, the annual cinephile pilgrimage in Bologna, has reached its 40th edition. As ever, it brings an ample assortment of newly restored films…
For a certain kind of action movie fan, DTV action has long been where the real hidden gems lie. From the long-touted Universal Soldier: Day…
Carla Simón’s parents passed away when she was only six years old. As an adult, she’s spent her filmmaking career unpacking what that’s meant to…
Xue Ma’s films are radically unique. There’s a strange romance, explicit and implicit, and a profane magic that permeates the Chinese ex-pat’s White River (2023),…
If what Emmanuel Levinas said about the human face is true — that it “orders and ordains” us — then sudden, violent facial destruction signals…
Argentinian filmmaker Lucio Castro likes it when you don’t quite know what you’re looking at. His first feature, End of the Century, was a time-travel…
Beijing’s Tiananmen Square is a place made out of dates. Mao Zedong declared the founding of the People’s Republic of China on October 1 —…
In a fictional New York City, a wolf stalks through the night. This isn’t a typical wolf. She’s not prowling for a kill. This wolf…
The “YouTuber-to-filmmaker” pipeline is becoming a viable pathway to Hollywood success in 2026, particularly in the horror genre. In some notable cases, like with movie…
A 106-minute wisp of a film that unspools like the searching nature of life, Alice Winocour’s Couture keeps alive the ethos of a filmmaker who…
Summer camp is a pivotal moment for many a young person. Attendee or counselor, it’s a time away from parents and responsibilities, which allows a…
“They say that long ago, on hilly Crete, the Labyrinth contained a weaving course among blind walls and countless twisting paths, impossible to trace or…
A maxim sometimes encountered in film writing — and one espoused in the transcript that follows — is the notion that a film teaches an…
Mark Jenkin had been making films for years before his debut feature, Bait, effectively took the UK by storm. Success across the festival circuit (a…
The Super-8 camera is light like a feather. In order to employ it well, the filmmaker should be light as a feather. To watch a…
In 1968, Valerie Solanas shot Andy Warhol. A vociferous feminist and author of the “S.C.U.M. (Society for Cutting Up Men) Manifesto, Solanas felt that Warhol…
In an introduction for Bill Morrison’s new film darker, Nitrate Picture Show festival director Peter Bagrov joked that when archivists and preservationists come across reels…
The 10th Nitrate Picture Show, programmed by the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, New York, is predicated on a technology both out-of-date and incendiary: the…
After years spent acting in Mumblecore staples like Gabi on the Roof in July, experimental oddities like Hellaware, and horror anthologies like V/H/S, Sophia Takal…
In the decades during Bush’s Global War on Terror that became Obama’s, then Trump’s, then Biden’s, there was a sense of resistance that permeated among…