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 the long-awaited return of one of contemporary European cinema’s most distinctive voices. Set in Svilengrad, a Bulgarian town on the border with Turkey and…
In Michael Sarnoski’s The Death of Robin Hood, the titular outlaw of English folklore spends his final years wandering the moors of 13th-century Britain, trying to shed the legend he helped foster and the seemingly legion of sworn enemies he’s created over his lifetime — finding little success…
Jaws: the New Hollywood movie that began to end them all by creating summer blockbusters, the origin point for practically every bad urban legend about both real sharks and the malfunctioning mechanical one at the center of its production that you’ve ever heard — just where did that…
Although cinema is at its best when it gleefully breaks the rules, some operating procedures need to be in place when you embark upon an airplane-crash disaster movie — or a schlocky shark slasher for that matter. When up in the air and suddenly urged to fasten your…
Ben Wheatley has done it all. From humble beginnings with killer indies like Down Terrace and Kill List to Hollywood mega-productions like Rebecca and The Meg 2, there’s almost no stone left unturned for the British filmmaker. Having even dipped into trippy horror surrealism with A Field in…
Liminal spaces are all the rage these days. You can’t scroll for five minutes on any given social media app without seeing an image or video depicting a room that seemingly goes on forever. These are usually malls or children’s playplaces; we love our nostalgia, but a liminal…
I was driving to see the cinema’s latest love story and stopped at a red light. On an empty street, on a cloudless night, I found myself making a U-turn. It wasn’t just that I sensed the indie I was going to was factory-made. It wasn’t that it…
A Note on Selection and Organization Criteria The films in our canon were categorized according to the year of their U.S. theatrical release and the distributor behind it — except in cases where a.) the time between the film’s international release and its U.S. one exceeded five years, or b.) the film never received any…
Individual Lists Aaditya Aggarwal Contributor 1. Mambar Pierrette — Rosine Mbakam 2. Mountains — Monica Sorelle 3. Janet Planet — Annie Baker 4. Babygirl — Halina Reijn 5. Queer — Luca Guadagnino 6. The Room Next Door — Pedro Almodóvar 7. Last Summer — Catherine Breillat 8. Girls Will Be Girls — Shuchi Talati 9.
Convergence and divergence are sometimes indistinguishable from each other, especially when occurring in an ecosystem so rapid, cacophonous, and reflexive. This is the bubble…
INTERVIEWS PART OF THE STORY: AN INTERVIEW WITH JOHN SMITH FEATURE BY: Zach Lewis FILM DOESN’T TAKE ANY PRISONERS: AN INTERVIEW WITH RICHARD TUOHY…
In October of 1972, a chartered airplane carrying four dozen people including a Uruguayan rugby team and their friends and families crashed in the Andes. Those who weren’t killed upon impact or…
When the 2018 remake of old Hollywood standby A Star is Born dropped, it marked the culmination of over a decade’s worth of effort…
Maestro When the 2018 remake of old Hollywood standby A Star is Born dropped, it marked the culmination of over a decade’s worth of…
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,…
Despite being arguably the popular genre of the classical era of Hollywood, the Western has faded over time into the background of mainstream cinema.…
French auteur Jacques Rivette’s relationship to novelist Honoré de Balzac lasted throughout his entire life. His fascination first made its way into his directorial…
Cinephilia is necessarily littered with the detritus of half-remembered viewing experiences, films only glimpsed from childhood in a perspective almost wholly incompatible with the…
While his first directorial credit for a commercial project was released a decade after the Movie Brats first took hold of Hollywood in the late '60s to early '70s — where a mere year after 1978’s I Wanna Hold Your Hand, he would collaborate with Steven Spielberg on 1941 — Robert Zemeckis is, in heart
Jerry and Marge Go Large presents its larger-than-life tale with restraint and sincerity, imbuing its caper framework with the tenderness of a Christmas comedy. If you’ve never heard of the small town of Evart, Michigan, David Frankel’s new dramedy Jerry and Marge Go Large not only spotlights it for…