Film adaptations of Stephen King’s work often suffer from genre misidentification. This isn’t to say that filmmakers mistakenly read King’s work as horror fiction…
When critic Darren Hughes and filmmaker Paul Harrill founded The Public Cinema in 2015, their goal was to bring important works of world cinema…
In This Issue: FEATURES: STITCHING REALITIES: An Interview With Eduardo Williams by Jesse Catherine Webber A CONTRACT WITH THE AUDIENCE: An Interview With James Benning by Zach…
Argentinian filmmaker Eduardo Williams’ new film The Human Surge 3, which premiered this summer in competition at the Locarno Film Festival, is his first…
James Benning, the legendary moving-picture artist known for his durational portraits of America, has made one of his most personal works yet. Shot not…
“If they echo our sense that our bodies are liable to become dead, intractable objects, […] puppets also play out a fantasy of surviving…
Tracing a labyrinth of half-recalled memories, Revoir Paris, the fourth feature film from director Alice Winocour, explores violence while also turning its head from…
Since 1969, the French Directors’ Guild (SRF) has held the Directors’ Fortnight in parallel to the Cannes Film Festival. Often more adventurous than the…
Ever since he moved to Rome, Abel Ferrara has focused much of his directorial output on the land of his family: Pasolini, Piazza Vittorio,…
One of the highlights of the 2022 Berlinale’s Encounters sidebar was Ashley McKenzie’s Queens of the Qing Dynasty. Following the Canadian filmmaker’s first feature,…
Adirley Queirós and Joana Pimenta come from very different artistic backgrounds, but that fact wouldn’t be obvious based on their two collaborations to date,…
In 2002, Laura Citarella co-founded El Pampero Cine with Mariano Llinás, Agustín Mendaliharzu, and Alejo Moguillansky. In 2011, they released Citarella’s first feature, Ostende,…
Anthropologist-filmmakers Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel’s work dissolves the space between their camera and their subject. Previous films Leviathan and Caniba both treat their…
Now on her fifth feature, Rebecca Zlotowski’s films are populated with complicated women. The director has a knack for capturing doubts and quietly subverting…
Eras in music are often as much defined by the music itself as by the dominant methods of discovery of the day. Every generation…
Though Travis Wilkerson is an American filmmaker, his subjects, methods, and tone mirror what’s called Third Cinema — politically charged movies made outside the…
In 2017, Léa Mysius premiered Ava at Cannes, an exhilarating directorial debut and a vibrant coming of age tale that showcased a filmic bravado…
To twangy Chicago indie rockers Ratboys, making music is all about good, honest fun. Their new song, “Black Earth, WI,” lives up to that…