The buzz around Connor Sen Warnick’s first feature, Characters Disappearing, has been humming since it screened at last year’s New/Next Film Festival in Baltimore. In…
Since the dawn of cinema, the Western has conjured up an abundance of memorable, grizzled outlaws, often out to rob a bank or a train…
For over 40 years, Beth B has been a singular force in independent filmmaking. The pioneer of the No Wave filmmaking movement, along with Scott…
Credit where it’s due: Evil Dead Burn, the sixth movie in the franchise and third with a director other than Sam Raimi, offers a clever…
In a world completely in thrall to corporate IP and mega-budget computerized imperialist fantasies, we should be eternally grateful to festivals like Fantasia for platforming…
Pain is not a present sensation. Pain is a memory. Like all sensations, by the time information — be it visual, aural, or anything else…
Death is awful, but the language we use to describe death is arguably worse. Humorist Norm Macdonald, who himself died of cancer, took issue with…
If you were to flip past Marine Atlan’s film La Gradiva on TV (which used to be a thing you could do), you might think…
In this dispatch: Faith Lacking Deeds…
It was in December 1923, only months after military dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera had seized power amidst the ongoing systemic crisis of Spain’s Restoration…
A more oblique interlocutor than Matthew McConaughey’s nihilist operative “Rust” Cohle in True Detective, Sawandi Groskind’s Staubwelt arguably dramatizes the central premise of philosophical pessimism…
The question of how to depict violence has plagued, or in other cases not bothered, filmmakers since the medium’s inception. In Felipe Rúgeles Pineda’s new…
In dreams, everyone is equal. Regardless of age, status, or character, we all sleep. In sleep, we all dream. And there, what happens is, for…
There is a playful disconnect between the title of Mokya Shin’s EASTER and its subject matter. Although South Korea’s most prominent religion (after atheism or…
Like his 2010 film Cologne Overnight, Declan Clarke’s latest, Love and the End of Romance in Czechoslovakia, takes an instructive approach. Title cards loaded with…
The portable camera is more accessible now than perhaps ever before, and as a result, the diary film seems to have found its footing within…
It’s been five years since RS Benedict’s essay “Everyone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny” was published by Blood Knife. While Benedict focused on…
Sympathetic portrayals of kids who’ve fallen into a life of crime have been commonplace in the arthouse circuit since at least the days of Italian…
Among the standout films that played at this year’s Cannes Film Festival was The Dreamed Adventure, which earned Valeska Grisebach the Jury Prize and marked…
Writer-director Georgia Bernstein’s feature debut, Night Nurse, appears to fit within a poetic label once afforded to Claire Denis: this erotic thriller bears a sense…
If who you are is a sin, what are the consequences of simply living your life? Traditional spiritualism clashes with modern individualism in Nader Saeivar’s…