With little of the fanfare or cult of personality that has greeted the Peeles, Eggers, and Asters of the world, filmmaker Oz Perkins (I Am…
Any number of filmmakers can fittingly have their work characterized as “vibrant,” but very few filmographies feel as alive as that of Olivier Assayas. Whether…
Throughout Made in England: The Films of Powell & Pressburger, the softly croaky and comforting voice of Martin Scorsese repeatedly reminds us that the films…
Confusing glibness for frothy irreverence, Greg Berlanti’s Fly Me to the Moon primarily caters to two long-underserved segments of the audience: those yearning for the reemergence…
Let us begin as I started: in media res. Two moths, born far too late to appear in the flurry of wings that made up…
Republics, as it were, are spaces of contradiction — the citizens’ collective supreme authority refracted through the figures of their representatives — whose political legitimacy…
Lazaro at Night Medium-length features; a small but consistent troupe of actors in every picture; every scene just another conversation; little-to-no camera movement; and beguiling,…
Medium-length features; a small but consistent troupe of actors in every picture; every scene just another conversation; little-to-no camera movement; and beguiling, inventive narrative structures…
The Flame of a Candle presents the account of three characters: Alzira (Eva Ras), her maid Beatriz (Márcia Breia), and their home. Director André Gil…
The depictions of early adulthood in cinema have, until recently, been characterized by an odd, dizzying sensation: portraying it as a period where one’s life…
Beatrice Gibson’s short film Leisure, Utopic is the first in a series of “loose adaptations” of Bernadette Mayer’s book-length poem, Utopia. The film features the…
Metafiction as a reclamation of the historical and a confrontation of the contemporary malaise, built up across international political discourses of pervading neoconservatism, urgently addressing…
The rise of A24 as a production company and distributor has seen with it the public recognition, on Tik Tok and Reddit, of the A24…
The documentarian’s camera — more often than not — observes, investigates, and deliberates in media res. The past, then, is either recounted through a detached…
2024 has so far proven to be a great year for action cinema: whatever its flaws, The Fall Guy is a paean to stuntmen and…
ESSAYS WORLD WIDE WEB OF DREAD: HORROR FROM THE YEAR OF THE WEB, 30 YEARS LATER FEATURE BY: Mike Thorn CRAFT AS POLITICAL PRAXIS OR:…
Lichens Are the Way As documentaries go, the subject of plant life tends to suffer from a lack of tangible movement. Inertia, ascribed to the…
What is the difference between a filmmaker and a filmer? Watching archival films assembled from home movies, it’s difficult to escape the long shadow of…
As documentaries go, the subject of plant life tends to suffer from a lack of tangible movement. Inertia, ascribed to the slow-moving, still hearkens back…
The cinema of Jean-Claude Rousseau is one inexorably tied to its architecture — whether natural or forged — and one whose structural nature makes full…