Mohanad Yaqubi’s Revolutionaries Never Die is the Palestinian filmmaker and archivist’s cinematic “answer” to the pioneering Lebanese journalist and filmmaker Jocelyne Saab’s invitation to collaborate,…
The main narrative engine, if there’s any to speak of, in Serra’s only other documentary, Afternoons of Solitude, was about trapping its subject in three…
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Few worlds in cinema are as unmistakable as those of Chilean visual-art virtuosos Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña, whose astonishing craft is matched by the…
Representation does not equal inclusion. With ostensibly good intentions and plenty of compassion, Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh’s attempt at telling the story of refugee…
The inline skate is a useful metaphor for the life of Alex (Ani Mesa-Perez), the young woman on the cusp of adulthood in Erin Vassilopoulos’…
The aesthetics of liminality, arising from online images and storytelling revolving around emptied public spaces and mediated encounters with the uncanny, have lately penetrated cinema.…
In his most recent short The Wind, One Brilliant Day, Ben Rivers takes on a poem-in-translation by the Spanish modernismo writer Antonio Machado, né Antonio…
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Something I learned over many years working in restaurants is that there are no cooks that work in them, no servers, no bartenders, no hosts…
Troubled souls trapped: the parameters of a typical Claire Denis narrative are rarely complex. Beau Travail’s French Foreign Legion soldiers were confined to their base…
Kent Jones has long been one of cinema’s greatest thinkers, so to simply refer to him as a director seems a gross oversimplification for what…
In an era of Hong Kong cinema often defined by masculine action films, Stanley Kwan’s filmography stands out. With films like Rouge, Center Stage, and…
Many of us can agree that 2026 has been a dark year, and the sights ahead only look dimmer. War, starvation, deportation, rising cost of…
Back when labels were willing to spend on them, music videos served as a legitimate pipeline for visual artists, places for them to cut their…
As InRO’s own Jake Tropila makes note of in his recent piece on the killer-shark-in-a-cave-movie The Devil’s Mouth, “shark movies have been seemingly omnipresent all year”;…
It’s a shame I had to see Kent Jones’ Willem Dafoe vehicle, Late Fame, on the Upper West Side at NYFF in mid-September. It was…
“There is a hole in the lake where the movies come from” is one of those incredible lines that Teenage Sex and Death at Camp…
The quaint and rustic settlement of Sangerhausen, in Germany’s Saxony-Anhalt, might have been an incidental choice of setting, but much of Julian Radlmaier’s quietly revelatory…
In this dispatch: Unholy Night…
For introverts and the unaccomplished, the greatest threat looming over every family gathering isn’t the unlikely prospect of mass violence, but an all too conscious…