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Artist Retrospectives

Looking back in order to see ahead. 

Cui Jian: The World That's Changing Longs to Never Change View All

by Sam C. Mac• Featured• Music• Retrospective

Cui Jian: The World That’s Changing Longs to Never Change

September 2, 2019
by Sam C. Mac• Music• Retrospective

Cui Jian | Frozen Light

September 2, 2019
by Sam C. Mac• Music• Retrospective

Cui Jian | Show You Colour

September 2, 2019
"With #TheAlbum, the @jonasbrothers have given lis "With #TheAlbum, the @jonasbrothers have given listeners their second full-length release since they reunited in 2019, no matter that it was a move seemingly no one asked for, even particularly engaged fans — the nostalgia machine works particularly well for the group. Nonetheless, it’s a move that was made, and what has resulted is a boring, and often bizarre, grasp at relevancy from a group that has aged out of the genre it insists on trying to retain space within." Is #TheAlbum worth listening to? Keeping reading our review from @thebosma of #TheAlbum at the link in our bio. (Photo Credits: Republic Records)
"Think: what if a rom-com, but with two couples, o "Think: what if a rom-com, but with two couples, one of whom are rogue robotic clones of the other?" Check out our review at the link in our bio of #Robots from @neonrated (Photo Credits: NEON)
Check out @nick.pies's thoughts on janet. as he re Check out @nick.pies's thoughts on janet. as he revisits the 1993 album as part of #KickingTheCanon. Read our full review at the link in our bio. (Photo Credits: Virgin Records)
"...#KiraKovalenko’s sophomore feature makes for "...#KiraKovalenko’s sophomore feature makes for such a welcome and exciting discovery. Set in the cinematic terra incognita of North Ossetia, a federal subject in Russia with its distinct language and identity, #UnclenchingTheFists masterfully surveys through its character study of one Adadza (Milana Aguzarova) — a woman trapped in the clutches of her father Zaur (Alik Karaev) — a broader topography of economic and cultural alienation." Want to keep reading? Check out @morrisycy's review of #UnclenchingTheFists at the link in our bio. (Photo Credits: Cannes Film Festival)
"#RaduJude’s new short, #ThePotemkinists, finds "#RaduJude’s new short, #ThePotemkinists, finds the director in typically didactic form, which is one of his greatest virtues — why not say what you mean, especially when it comes to politics? At the present moment, film holds perhaps the least cultural impact it has ever had, and short films even less, so there’s little hope for ideas buried under the propriety of subtext. In The Potemkinists, two Romanian characters — a sculptor and a bureaucrat from the ministry of culture — lay out their ideas in a vapid Socratic dialogue, debating what to make of a particularly meaningless statue that could be either a hammer, a flag, a flame, or a wing (it doesn’t really matter, since India has already built a bigger one). To make it the tallest statue in Europe and restore some of the country’s former Soviet glory, the sculptor suggests adding a tribute to the Potemkinists, those sailors who rose up on the eponymous Russian battleship, mostly because he loves Eisenstein’s film and its depiction of the event." Read the full review of #ThePotemkinists from Esme Holden below. (Photo Credits: Mubi)
"Sadly, new romantic comedy About My Father is not "Sadly, new romantic comedy About My Father is not a companion piece to Pedro Almodóvar’s magnificent All About My Mother, but instead an attempted star vehicle for rising stand-up comedian Sebastian Maniscalco, who makes a lot of jokes about being Italian that so inspire fits of wheezing laughter in the lucrative middle-aged white male demographic." Continue reading our review from @stevenwarner1980 for #AboutMyFather at the link in our bio. (Photo Credits: Dan Anderson/Lionsgate)
"@jamie_sisley's directorial debut, #StayAwake, is "@jamie_sisley's directorial debut, #StayAwake, is an addiction story that situates its two primary characters outside the epicenter of the addiction — in its wake and at the periphery. Tremors of turmoil sweep through the family of three: a single mother and her two coming-of-age sons, the youngest, Ethan (Wyatt Oleff), and older brother, Derek (Steffan Fin Argus)." Keep reading our review from @conortruax of #StayAwake from marvistaent at the link in our bio. (Photo Credits: Alejandro Meija/Stay Awake LLC)
"#WillOTheWisp, @projetoutah’s long-awaited foll "#WillOTheWisp, @projetoutah’s long-awaited follow-up feature to The Ornithologist, almost seems to take the form of a sketch. Running a slender 67 minutes and seeming to concentrate its action into a matter of days, the film’s structure bears a closer resemblance to Un chien andalou than anything else: it begins in the year 2069, before hopping back to 2011, then forward to “some years later,” then “one year later,” which is where the bulk of the film takes place. This purposefully ambiguous timescale feels right for a film that indulges so freely in alternate realities and surreal settings, an overflowing of incidents packed into a small container." Read the full review for Will-o’-the-Wisp at the link in our bio. (Photo Credits: Cannes Film Festival)
"Edward Yang seldom provides us the comfort of a g "Edward Yang seldom provides us the comfort of a grand theme with his elliptical and ambiguous narrative, where, contrary to most interlocking narratives, connections emerge as a source of suspicion that splinter rather than suture relationships. Character motivations are deliberately obscured, and the narrative momentum is thwarted by sharp, disjunctive edits." Check out our review of #TheTerrorizers for #KickingTheCanon by visiting the link in our bio. (Photo Credits: Letterboxd)

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