In town to open the 34th Singapore International Film Festival with her debut feature, Tiger Stripes (2023), Amanda Nell Eu settled into a cafe…
“I see so much, burns my eyes.” – Godflesh, “Xnoybis” (1994) “I can see, I can see, I’m going blind.” – Korn, “Blind” (1994)…
The 1960s to early 1970s was a truly utopian moment. In the hangover of Imperial Japan, the concomitant decolonization of the “Third World,” and…
Appreciating the work of Barry Gerson in recent years has been somewhat difficult. His work remains noted in high regard when it’s shown and…
Kit Zauhar should probably be one of the shining bastions of American independent cinema today. Her two features to date represent two forms of…
Cinematographer and film critic Carson Lund moves to the director’s chair with Eephus, a laid-back comedy following a ragtag group of men as they…
s1e1 – “Pilot” I have been thinking about Robin Wood and playing foxtail in a front yard that smelled like Sugar Maple leaves and…
Your films have been widely described as having thematic preoccupations with the future and its anxieties, but at the same time they also are…
Long whispered about by in-the-know cinephiles but seldom seen in American theaters, Greek director Antoinetta Angelidi’s long overdue U.S. debut comes courtesy of Prismatic…
A quince tree in full fruit, September 30. This is the moment. Antonio López García prepares his canvas; he sets his easel; he colors…
**The following discusses the endings of Monster and Evil Does Not Exist. “Movies are the most powerful empathy machine in all the arts,” Roger…
With our own culture marginalized, when it isn’t being stripped for its most clean and convenient parts, queer people have often taken back from…
The “gay bathhouse” comes from a rich and storied tradition, from 15th-century Florence to 19th-century Paris to 20th-century New York City. Featuring an assortment…
Viewed from one angle, Kevin Jerome Everson’s eclipse studies are as anomalous as the phenomena they capture. Everson’s body of work documents Black life…
As Lav Diaz’s films have shrunk in reception, they have only grown in eclecticism and importance. A decade on from Norte: The End of…
Slackers have been the bread and butter of indie cinema since 90’s mainstays like Clerks and Slacker helped jumpstart the whole modern American independent…
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…