Though recent Palme d’Or wins for Parasite and Titane might point to a changing landscape, Cannes has never been a particularly genre-friendly festival. Most…
A delicate and bittersweet queer coming-of-age film, A Song Sung Blue is also, unfortunately, weighed down by all the predictable beats that befall its…
Belgian director Paloma Sermon-Daï’s 2020 documentary film Petit Samedi profiled her own family, paying particular attention to her brother and his drug addiction. Her…
Jamie Sisley’s directorial debut, Stay Awake, is an addiction story that situates its two primary characters outside the epicenter of the addiction — in…
Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning — these whistleblowers, through their defiance, would define the creeping American military industrial and security complex in the years after…
One of the biggest pitfalls of depicting and representing trauma arrives precisely and most insidiously in what appears to be its greatest strength: by…
Will-o’-the-Wisp, João Pedro Rodrigues’s long-awaited follow-up feature to The Ornithologist, almost seems to take the form of a sketch. Running a slender 67 minutes…
Ever since its explosion into the Hollywood mainstream, and that of its globalized imitators, in the 21st century, hyperlink cinema has become one of…
Even within the world of American independent filmmaking, there’s something endearingly out-of-step about the films of Nicole Holofcener. Warm and chatty when angst and…
It’s been five years since Djon Africa, the last feature from co-directors João Miller Guerra and Filipa Reis. That film — about a Cape…
Karim Leklou has a fascinating face, a seemingly unremarkable assemblage of features that acts like a blank slate; it’s a Kuleshov-effect visage. Director Clément…
Trần Anh Hùng’s The Pot-au-Feu charts a romance between gourmet chef Dodin Bouffant (Benoit Magimel) and his cook, Eugenie (Juliette Binoche), in late 18th-century…
Typically, calling a film a faithful adaptation of its source material can constitute praise. It’s a signal of approval, a fan’s casual imprimatur. It’s…
Kansas-born actor and director Dennis Hopper had an incredibly illustrious but volatile career after debuting in Nicholas Ray’s Rebel Without a Cause. Hopper worked…
The marketing for Ryan Stevens Harris’ debut feature film Moon Garden has been very careful to center the hand-crafted nature of the endeavor —…
The great Jia Zhangke is listed as a co-producer on Kavich Neang’s new film White Building, a sensitive coming of age story that nonetheless…
There’s always at least a modicum of interest stirred up when well-known actors take a turn in the director’s chair. More often than not,…
With the flood of murder podcasts and documentaries seemingly never-ending, true crime as a genre is in need of a serious makeover. While such…