Rumours Since his out-of-nowhere debut feature Tales from the Gimli Hospital in 1988, Winnipeg-based director Guy Maddin has become synonymous with a very particular…
The Room Next Door Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar’s English-language films have operated in a particularly confessional mode. Featuring The Room Next Door’s co-star Tilda…
Eephus At first, Eephus holds the potential to make one quite sad. For this writer, the effect did not seem intentional and was more…
Scénarios The last image of Jean-Luc Godard’s last film Scénarios is one of the most heartbreaking in his long, storied, notorious, glorious, defining, essential…
All We Imagine As Light “This city takes time away from you,” says one of the seven disembodied voices introducing us to the wide-awake-at-night…
Pepe Just barely after the advent of photography, the concept of putting a camera in a balloon was born. Taken long before commercial air…
Anora The title character of Sean Baker’s Anora notably does not go by that name for most of the film, and appears uncomfortable when…
Babygirl Halina Reijn’s Babygirl is aware of the discourse. It’s read all the articles that have been passed around online, it knows what’s considered…
Dahomey Before making her feature film debut with 2019’s Atlantics, French-Senegalese director Mati Diop produced a series of poetic short films, all of which…
Hard Truths Six years ago, Mike Leigh produced his first war film, Peterloo, in which domestic unrest in 1819 led British troops to slaughter…
Because of the sheer breadth of work on display — 10 programs, with an average of seven or eight films per program — the…
The Seed of the Sacred Fig As titles go, the latest from Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof epitomizes a rare fidelity to its subject. The…
By the Stream In “The Evolution of the Language of Cinema,” André Bazin famously argued that depth-of-field marked a dialectical leap forward in the…
Drowning Dry Pilgrims, Laurynas Bareiša’s previous feature, was an accomplished debut that explored a man’s inability to move past the senseless killing of his…
The Sparrow in the Chimney Those who have seen the Zürcher twins’ other works, The Strange Little Cat and The Girl and the Spider,…
Ababooned There’s a good chance you’ve never heard of André Forcier, the writer-director of the new comedy Ababooned. But he is actually one of…
As ever, Fantasia’s Retro lineup offered a wealth of riches this year, from the familiar titles to the utterly unexpected. First and foremost is,…
The Paragon 2024 has been a good year for nostalgia-driven genre cinema so far. Especially with the widespread popularity of films like I Saw…