Parker Tyler, eclectic film critic and champion of the early American avant-garde cinema, wrote in Underground Film, his critical history of the movement published in…
After his debut feature in 2008, Lance Hammer has finally arrived — or maybe one should say re-arrived. His first film in nearly two decades,…
In 2002, Hungarian director Pálfi György released his first film Hukkle to near-universal acclaim. The title, which is an onomatopoeia for the sound of a…
Kogonada’s latest film has a “latest by Kogonada” problem. The video-essayist-turned-director burst onto the scene with Columbus (2017), a quiet, poetic meditation on friendship and…
Contrary to the quick-take meta-narrative, the quality of Yeon Sang-ho’s filmography cannot and should not be limited to his four zombie films (Seoul Station, Train…
The sun shines through a windshield. We see a blue sky speckled with blinding white clouds. If heaven exists, and it’s up there, it doesn’t…
Latin America — though hardly a monolith — has historically been near-unilaterally excluded from leading cinematic institutions, whether commercial distribution, festival programming, and critical and…
Yoshiyuki Okuyama’s 5 Centimeters Per Second is only on its face a romantic story, about a lovelorn boy and his lost childhood love. If only…
Across 30 years and seven films, Lee Chang-dong has told stories about a diverse array of people, from the gangsters in Green Fish (1997), to…
After an 18-year hiatus following his acclaimed Sundance debut, Ballast, filmmaker Lance Hammer has returned with his sophomore feature. Hammer has expressed that his long…
The documentaries of the Polish virtuoso of stylised nonfiction Michał Marczak resist any neat taxonomy, as their proximity to their heroes and spectacular command of…
Christmas-themed horror movies are a dime a dozen. Blending gleeful fits of carnage with what is — for most — arguably the cheeriest holiday of…
Much digital ink has been spilled about the merits of YouTubers transitioning to feature film directors. Some happily welcome this newfound generation of talent with…
On October 11, 1985, during Back to the Future’s 15th week in theaters, while audiences reveled in Marty and Doc Brown’s escape from Libyan terrorists…
Two years after announcing himself to the film world with Green Fish, a noir that used the genre’s bleak markers to scaffold the erasure of…
It was only in January 2026, a whole decade after Michał Marczak’s All These Sleepless Nights had premiered at Sundance, that I learned that a…
At the 75th edition of Cannes, Austrian director Marie Kreutzer’s Corsage (2022) sparked considerable attention, premiering in Un Certain Regard. This playfully reimagined portrait of…
The pop music industry is one of single stories. Regardless of the language or nationality of the industry, pop musicians are essentially told to fit…
Wicker, the latest film from Save Yourselves! directors Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson, is a film both steeped in the romantic fantasies of old…
It’s been a rocky old road for Jack Begert’s Junk. Premiering at Sundance 2024 under the title Little Death, the film won the NEXT Innovation…
A friend once admitted to having consumed Wonka (2023) on his cellphone mid-flight, in 10-minute increments between naps, “the way Scorsese intended.” The admission is,…