Silence — like its two unassuming allies, stillness and slowness — is often positioned as a response to mainstream cinema’s reckless noisiness. But contemporary indie…
Melancholy, that inexplicable feeling of pensiveness, constitutes the centerpiece of memory, at least when memory divulges itself to its owner and defers all fantasies of…
Zodiac Killer Project is, put simply, a strange undertaking. Charlie Shackleton’s expansively stripped-down documentary emerged from a thwarted attempt to adapt Lyndon E. Lafferty’s 2012…
It’s quite obvious at this point that Netflix has firmed up their annual Christmas lineup formula by tugging at millennials’ soft spots via a mix…
Early on in Under the Flags, the Sun, a banner hoisted by loyalists to Paraguayan dictator General Alfredo Stroessner reads, “The 20th century, with God…
Sylvia Chang has been one of the more under-appreciated forces in international film for almost 50 years now. Beginning her career as an actress in…
Society has always had something of a morbid curiosity with true crime. From Jack the Ripper and In Cold Blood to the near-constant stream of…
Ken Burns is more closely associated with the tweed jacket crowd than the bohemian, blowing dust off antiquarian events so that public access television has…
The year 2000 was a typically busy year for typically prolific filmmaker Steven Soderbergh, who released legal biopic Erin Brockovich and hyperlink crime drama Traffic…
Shrouded in painterly dimness, Lotfy Nathan’s The Carpenter’s Son opens with a scene of the Nativity, wrought with bleak naturalism: a boy is born to…
Left-Handed Girl is a movie of debts: of money owed to hospitals and landlords, of time owed to family, of the obligations of history. For…
Some day, our future will be someone else’s past. Arco, the titular co-protagonist of illustrator, comic book author, and short film director Ugo Bienvenu’s debut…
Stephen King wrote his novel The Running Man in 1972, and it was published a decade later under his pseudonym Richard Bachmann. At the time…
The cabin in the woods: as reliable a setup as there is in all of horror. The isolation of new lovers leaving the world and…
“Is this what the end of the world feels like?” The question is posed from one beleaguered raver to another, on a school bus somewhere…
“What’s a pretty girl like you,” asks Don King, the all-time boxing promoter played by Chad L. Coleman, “doing getting punched in the face?” Christy…
“People are cheap, water is expensive.” So says Reza (Erkan Kolçak Köstendil), the mysterious and curiously educated drifter who stumbles into Ali’s (Ekin Koç) withered…
Ira Sachs’ 2010 short film Last Address presents an unadorned montage of New York City apartment buildings and rowhouses, each of which once housed an…
If you follow the news or perhaps live in one of the American cities where masked thugs are abducting people off the streets, having its…
For surefire entertainment, the “one crazy day” subgenre is a reliable standby, cramming people, places, and things into an eventful 24 hours of incident. It’s…