It’s hard to talk about Richie Mehta’s Phoolan without first talking about Bandit Queen and Arundhati Roy. In 1994 in India, writer Arundhati Roy was…
“Medical assistance in dying,” or MAID in Canada, is the country’s assisted suicide legal framework. The framework is now a decade old, and its use…
A committed revolutionary who doesn’t see his filmmaking practice as something separate from his revolutionary aims, Masao Adachi has consistently stuck to his guns under…
No Money No Honey Long before the term “vlogger” or “influencer” entered the lexicon, it was unique, if not outright strange, to document one’s everyday…
There is a sort of integrity in making a film as doggedly mediocre as Without Blood. Adapted from Alessandro Baricco’s 2002 novel, Senza Sangue, by…
In this dispatch: Love of Your Life, Drifter…
Here’s the thing about competitive drift racing: it has very little to do with who crosses a finish line first. Instead, it’s a pastime focused…
Is it possible for an entire nation to have an inside joke? Manitoba-based filmmaker Matthew Rankin’s brilliant new film Ladies and Gentlemen, Brian Mulroney zeroes…
Some directors pick a lane and stay in it their entire careers. Some genre-hop, exploring different styles and methods, courting different audiences. So it’s of…
Western movies come with certain promises: of adventure and lawlessness, of chiseled jaws and gun smoke, of riding into the sunset with the horizon for…
Helena Girón and Samuel Delgado’s The Fortunate Isles begins with images of gently undulating water accompanied by a brief text providing historical context for their…
Carol Nguyen is a Canadian-Vietnamese filmmaker who has steadily climbed the ladder of the national industry since her prolific run of breakout short projects, in…
Japanese director Shinya Tsukamoto forged his legendary cult status with ultraviolent, psychosexual Japanese films like Tetsuo: The Iron Man, Tokyo Fist, and A Snake in…
“Intergenerational trauma” is a phrase that comes up often as a therapeutic buzzword, but less often is it talked about in systemic terms. When Colette…
In 2020, HBO began airing one of the funniest and most significant docuseries in the history of the form, How To With John Wilson, in…
Jonatan Etzler’s Bad Apples takes place somewhere in the United Kingdom, most likely a studio somewhere near Bristol, though it may as well be mistaken…
In this dispatch: Wild Horse Nine, Ha-Chan…
Two depressed guys, a remote location, and loads of shit hitting the fan. Martin McDonagh doesn’t need much more to make sophisticated black comedies that…
Love buds during summer on an idyllic Korean island. At least, it does for Jin (Sim Su-bin), a 17-year-old girl native to the island. Her…
As a certain theory of Baudrillardian post-intellectualism would have it, we now live in what could be referred to as an “anti” age — an…
Hong Kong cinema is dying, or at least so says the BBC (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQd3BiwYM1E). But keen observers will note that Hong Kong cinema, like cinema itself,…