There’s a school of thought that would read Pillion’s ending as a positive sentiment, in which a man who blunders his way into the BDSM…
In his 35mm short documentary Inang Maynila, James J. Robinson explored the textures of girlhood under the tumult of living in martial law in the…
Three Austrian documentaries from the past two years turn their gaze to the racially marginalized of the small mountain country. The oldest of the three,…
José Asunción Silva hangs over A Poet like a specter, haunting its messy proceedings. It’s no mistake that Colombia’s most famous poet weighs so heavily.…
Nowadays remembered as the independent producer of the heavy-hitters of the Japanese New Wave — Nagisa Ōshima; Shohei Imamura, Yoshishige Yoshida; Shuji Terayama; all of…
Lithuanian-French Jewish philosopher and Shoah survivor Emmanuel Levinas once opined that “the first word of the face is ‘Thou shalt not kill.’” The human face,…
2025 is the year of the teeter-totter. We teeter on the first half of the decade, defined by death and the uninhibited embrace of a…
2025 is the year of the teeter-totter. We teeter on the first half of the decade, defined by death and the uninhibited embrace of a…
My introduction to Bob Clark came through his latter holiday comedy, A Christmas Story, a film I grew up with and still associate with seasonal…
2025 is the year of the teeter-totter. We teeter on the first half of the decade, defined by death and the uninhibited embrace of a…
2025 is the year of the teeter-totter. We teeter on the first half of the decade, defined by death and the uninhibited embrace of a…
2025 is the year of the teeter-totter. We teeter on the first half of the decade, defined by death and the uninhibited embrace of a…
Filmmakers as confident and as distinctive as Bi Gan are rarely as young as he. At just 36 years of age, he’s directed four short…
One of the quirks of Lisa Jorgenson (Reese Witherspoon) in James L. Brooks’ 2010 film How Do You Know is a tendency to speak in…
When you’re tucked into a cozy nook and crack open a whodunit, you know what to expect. The dead body in a locked room. The…
The Viennale and the Austrian Film Museum’s joint Jean Epstein retrospective makes a simple case: with Epstein, the sea edits. It splices, stretches, and scours…
Over the weekend of November 14-16, I viewed the entirety of Twin Peaks: The Return, screened thanks to the great efforts of the Philadelphia Film…
When you love a director, you have to trust them, there’s no other way. That’s not the message of Casino — a quasi-biblical text about…
Winter: the sun shyly hides behind a curtain of gray and makes its exit much earlier, but, when it does appear, it shines a special…
Of all the classics directed by Yasujirō Ozu, 1949’s Late Spring is not only the one that kickstarted his most fruitful creative period that would…
In the years since the latest round of Israeli occupation and destruction of Palestine, the people and lives we see are often the ones who…