Filmmaking duo and brothers Peter and Bobby Farrelly have received more than their fair share of vitriol over the years for their particular brand of…
It’s the mark of a truly lazy and amateur writer to begin any piece with a dictionary definition, specifically one which relates back to the…
One of the most accomplished actors of his generation, equally adept at conveying volcanic rage and soft-spoken humility, Adam Driver’s greatest gift arguably is that…
In This Issue: FEATURES: Rendez-Vous With French Cinema 2023: Brother and Sister (Arnaud Desplechin) by M.G. Mailloux // Smoking Causes Coughing (Quentin Dupieux) by Morris…
What started more than two decades ago as a completely unexpected shot in the arm for a mostly dead subgenre has steadily declined into being…
Somewhere along the line, not all that long ago, Arnaud Desplechin ceased to be a marketable name in the U.S. film biz. While certainly never…
The latest film from French actor-director Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi is difficult to evaluate. One could argue that, for what it is, it is fairly accomplished. A…
Ballet school drama Neneh Superstar is the kind of film that gives festivals like Rendez-Vous with French Cinema a reason to reach out to younger…
Three Nights a Week is less the love story between a straight man and a drag queen it has been billed as, and rather a…
On debut LP Follow the Cyborg, Margaret Sohn (AKA Miss Grit) explores the figure of the cyborg as a vision for liberation. As a non-binary…
Iris DeMent likes to play the long game. When the Pentecostal-raised but avowedly agnostic 31-year-old from Kansas City, Missouri, made her John Prine-cosigned debut on…
Zhang Lu has proved a unique presence in 21st-century film: A Korean-Chinese literary intellectual of the 1980s who became a little-known cult figure in the…
“It’s a cracked-screen world,” sings Damon Albarn on Cracker Island, the eighth studio album from everyone’s favorite cartoon band. Since 2001, Damon Albarn and Jamie…
Helmut Dosantos’ feature debut, Gods of Mexico, is an ethereal work of observation, informing tonality through compositional rigor, the beauty on display siphoned into a…
Depending on your disposition, New York City’s claustrophobic crush of humanity is either unsettling or liberating, if not both simultaneously — it’s not easy to…
Naomi Kawase’s 2014 romance drama Still the Water is never short on striking imagery. Set in Amami Ôshima, an island off the southern coast of…
It seems safe to say that we’re currently experiencing a remarkable resurgence of interest in Jacques Rivette; long the most mysterious of all the Nouvelle…
Meghan Remy, mastermind behind the experimental pop project U.S. Girls, has been on a trajectory of constant evolution since she began releasing music under her…
These days it feels like we’re more frequently encountering stories of people — particularly men — obsessed with legacy. Characters yearn for a sense of…
When Jamie Dack’s Palm Trees and Power Lines premiered at last year’s Sundance Film Festival, it was against the backdrop of a roiling and mostly…