A woman speaks French as the top third of the image reveals itself to the audience, the rest of the screen blank. A man…
Diane Arbus once described horror as the relationship between sex and death. With the exception of pornography, no other film genre brings us closer…
Silent woman. Distant camera. Loneliness giving off a steam, slowly cooling into anger. Fantasy of retribution. Architecture so oppressive it could freeze a layer…
In his lifetime, Johann Sebastian Bach was not considered one of the great composers. He was known for his virtuosic ability, but his vast…
In one way, horror fans have a lot to be happy about. Over the past decade, the genre has broken out of its “midnight…
Danis Tanović might be the most personal, visually compelling, and thematically thoughtful political auteur working in European cinema. And regrettably, his name will largely…
The films of Antoine Bourges are measured by their restraint. Noted for their blurring of documentary and fiction, Bourges immerses himself in under-represented places…
Christopher Jason Bell has been making movies on the margin, funded only by himself and shot with a small crew as and when they…
Cinema has undergone two significant, canvas-expanding innovations so far in the 21st century. The first, as ushered in especially by the films of Timur…
There always seems to be an imaginary asterisk placed on discussions centered around films made by filmmakers who have been pushed into a Kafkaesque…
The superficial recreations of the Wes Anderson AestheticTM have kickstarted a new metric in art evaluation based on their ease of A.I. appropriation. While…
“Considered mechanically, a duck is not an efficient machine.” So observes Vague McMenamy, an amateur inventor living in pre-industrial Glasgow who resolves to improve…
Any discussion of the 20th century’s most brutal novels in American literature must include Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian (1985) and Bret Easton Ellis’s American…
It’s impossible to talk about 2023 without talking about Barbie and Oppenheimer, two very different films that became seismic pop culture sensations, crushing the…
It’s impossible to talk about 2023 without talking about Barbie and Oppenheimer, two very different films that became seismic pop culture sensations, crushing the…
Dashing Through the Snow It seems wholly appropriate that Disney’s new holiday comedy Dashing Through the Snow bypassed theaters completely and premiered on the…
A gangster movie, a story of post-colonial alienation, a broad satire of academia, and a romantic comedy, Mexican director Fernando Frías’ latest film, I…
In 1993, when the third edition of Japan’s biannually held Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival took place, no one could have foreseen the seismic…