Next Goal Wins Consider the fortunes of Taika Waititi in just the last five years. Briefly heralded as one of the more exciting voices in…
He Thought He Died Before He Thought He Died (2023), a friend spoke on his misgivings about 88:88 (2016), Isaiah Medina’s hitherto best-known film, echoing…
Menus-Plaisirs: Les Troisgros For most of Frederick Wiseman’s career, the master documentarian has focused on the lives and institutions of the United States. His films…
Les Indésirables “The real problem [or] the central mystery of politics is not sovereignty, but government; it is not God, but the angel; it is…
Whew! It’s only September, but here at InRO it does feel like we’ve lived through at least two of ’em, having successfully trawled through Cannes, Tribeca,…
The Palace At first glance, the Gstaad Palace looks like the last vestige of European aristocracy. The town of Gstaad, Switzerland itself catered only to…
Essential Truths of the Lake As yet another Hong Sang-soo project makes the rounds, surely to be followed in four to six months by another,…
The programmers at the Fantasia International Film Festival can be counted on, year after year, to assemble a strong lineup of retrospective screenings, from new…
River Director Yamaguchi Junta’s Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes was a delightful no-budget time travel comedy that hit the scene a couple of years ago,…
Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World To the uninitiated, written descriptions of Radu Jude’s cinema might give the wrong impression…
Red Rooms In 2002, Olivier Assayas’ Demonlover premiered in competition at the Cannes Film Festival to a storm of controversy, eclipsed — for better or…
MONDAYS Anyone who has ever worked a 9-5 office job has likely felt stuck performing the same meaningless tasks day after day. The only possibility…
Where the Devil Roams It’s difficult to parse the project of Toby Poser, John Adams, and Zelda Adams without relating it to the larger film…
We admit it, we’re gluttons for guts, gore, and genre. An antidote to the flattened, self-serious, and artistically anonymous titles that occupy coveted festival slots…
Nomad (Director’s Cut) One of the finest films of the Hong Kong New Wave, Patrick Tam’s Nomad (1982), plays at this year’s NYAFF in a…
Part of what’s so great about the Prismatic Ground festival is that it makes space for genuine cinematic curios, works that are so sufficiently distinct…
One of the many privileges of attending a film festival lies in watching the programs of shorts, cleverly curated such that one does not take…
The Fire Within Hot on the heels of the year’s earlier release of Katia and Maurice Krafft — Fire of Love — comes Werner Herzog’s…
Wisdom Gone Wild In Wisdom Gone Wild, Rea Tajiri returns to the subject of one of her earliest and best-known works: her mother. That earlier…
Septet: The Story of Hong Kong The subtitle for Septet: The Story of Hong Kong isn’t an all that accurate reflection of the omnibus’s breadth:…
DOC NYC is back. Boasting the tagline “America’s Largest Documentary Festival,” the renown is on the tin, but it’s nonetheless always a treat to comb…