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,…
Lee Chang-dong retrospective…
Coming Soon! Published as part of the retrospective Lee Chang-dong: The Impossible Present (or, How to Reappear Completely).
Coming Soon! Published as part of the retrospective Lee Chang-dong: The Impossible Present (or, How to Reappear Completely).
Coming Soon! Published as part of the retrospective Lee Chang-dong: The Impossible Present (or, How to Reappear Completely).
Coming Soon! Published as part of the retrospective Lee Chang-dong: The Impossible Present (or, How to Reappear Completely).
Coming Soon! Published as part of the retrospective Lee Chang-dong: The Impossible Present (or, How to Reappear Completely).
If LAIKA’s Wildwood was an absolute travesty in every other way, its floor would remain high because simply just looking at it, regardless of plot…
Paweł Pawlikowski, the immaculate king of grim black-and-white Eastern European cinema, has made us wait eight years for a new film. After the exquisite moral…
In some remote village, at some time before electricity and machines, there are the men who have jobs and the women who wed them. The…
It was only a matter of time until the superhero machine sank its teeth into body horror. With Clayface, the DCU makes good on a…
Very often in cinema, it’s as if we know the director of a film; we know their basic predilections, visual and thematic preoccupations, but only…
As the popular online adage goes, Cinephilia is a disease, and few exemplify this better than filmmakers themselves. Shaped by the forms, narratives and dramaturgies…
Breathing in Angela Schanelec’s world may be one of the most ineffable experiences still available to us in contemporary cinema: the sensation of drifting among…
Crime doesn’t pay the way it used to. At least, that’s the case for the old school petty thieves who would thrive on a practiced…