The release of a full-length, stop motion animated film is a relatively infrequent occasion, given the amount of labor and resources necessary to produce one.…
Much digital ink has been spilled over whether now, more than ever, we need positive queer images in popular media. As the world skids further…
With her first feature since 2019’s Black Christmas remake, Sophia Takal’s Act One returns to some of the same obsessions and fascinations as 2016’s Always Shine, her breakthrough second film…
The Super-8 camera is light like a feather. In order to employ it well, the filmmaker should be light as a feather. To watch a…
In John Carney’s latest work of music-centric cinema, Paul Rudd is Rick Power, frontman for The Bride & Groove, a Dublin-based wedding band. They tear…
The first shot of Julian Chou’s film Blind Love is both jarring and literal: a closeup of a doctor draining a cyst under a twitching…
In 1968, Valerie Solanas shot Andy Warhol. A vociferous feminist and author of the “S.C.U.M. (Society for Cutting Up Men) Manifesto, Solanas felt that Warhol…
In an introduction for Bill Morrison’s new film darker, Nitrate Picture Show festival director Peter Bagrov joked that when archivists and preservationists come across reels…
Near the end of The Gas Station Attendant, filmmaker Karla Murthy admits that she is “stuck in a time loop” while she sifts through boxes…
The 10th Nitrate Picture Show, programmed by the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, New York, is predicated on a technology both out-of-date and incendiary: the…
Nestled in the rural midwestern town of Three Oaks, Michigan, the largest flag day parade in the nation is a surreal scene of unabashed Americana,…
After years spent acting in Mumblecore staples like Gabi on the Roof in July, experimental oddities like Hellaware, and horror anthologies like V/H/S, Sophia Takal…
There is a small but fascinating subset of filmmaking that we could call the “intentional community movie.” These films involve a small cadre of performers…
In the decades during Bush’s Global War on Terror that became Obama’s, then Trump’s, then Biden’s, there was a sense of resistance that permeated among…
Several of Kalil Haddad’s films begin with a school picture. An adolescent boy poses for the camera, his hair neatly brushed, his shirt clean, a…
Jaws: the New Hollywood movie that began to end them all by creating summer blockbusters, the origin point for practically every bad urban legend about…
The mid-to-late ’90s into the early 2000s felt like a boom period for scrappy, singular, and DIY indie queer cinema. From Go Fish to Watermelon…
America’s contested legacy began even before the signing of the Declaration of Independence and, as far as cinema is concerned, continues to outgrow the fervid…
For over a decade, many cinephiles’ one touchpoint for the high watermark in martial arts cinema has been The Raid. It’s for good reason. Gareth…
Because cinema is an art form defined by duration and, thus, its unique ability to depict movement, capturing human bodies in motion has always been…
The godfather of punk cinema, Jon Moritsugu, unleashes his vision of the contemporary art world in his seventh feature film, Numbskull Revolution (2026), which relates…