In May 2022, Andy Fletcher — the keyboard player and one of the founding members of the prestigious British synth-pop/electronic rock group Depeche Mode…
In Mark Jenkin’s Enys Men, the unnamed protagonist (Mary Woodvine, in a role mysteriously dubbed “The Volunteer”) sets out on a mundane, quietly transfixing…
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Despite the French New Wave being widely considered obsolete by the 1980s, all of its directors remained active, finding varying degrees of success in…
For an era-defining band like 100 gecs — singer/producers Dylan Brady and Laura Les — it’s surprising that so few conversations about the group…
Outside the confines of polite Parisian society, there lies a wild west on wheels, in a subculture known as the urban rodeo. Though participation…
Just as rock music has fallen out of fashion, Yves Tumor has become increasingly insistent on performing it. What does it mean to become…
The latest film from French actor-director Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi is difficult to evaluate. One could argue that, for what it is, it is fairly accomplished.…
Three Nights a Week is less the love story between a straight man and a drag queen it has been billed as, and rather…
Naomi Kawase’s 2014 romance drama Still the Water is never short on striking imagery. Set in Amami Ôshima, an island off the southern coast…
When Jamie Dack’s Palm Trees and Power Lines premiered at last year’s Sundance Film Festival, it was against the backdrop of a roiling and…
From its first frames, Rikiya Imaizumi’s Call Me Chihiro is easily identifiable as a Netflix original. Adapted from Hiroyuki Yasuda’s manga Chihiro-san, the film’s…
Writer-director Christopher Landon has made a career out of taking some of the most tired and shopworn genre plots imaginable and infusing them with…
A young woman from Tokyo finds herself in a strange town. In the beginning, she is looking for a tourist site, the ruins of…
The first feature from Chinese filmmaker Wu Lang, Absence shares a title and cast with the director’s second short film, which played at Cannes…
If one thing can be said for the award-winning, box office-safe, well-worn road of the biopic, it’s that with the volume of films being…
In an era when any slob with a next-day delivery synth can create bleep-bloops in their bedroom and go viral overnight, the musical and…
Despite boasting a filmography mostly known for its unorthodox approximations to period detail and the formal subversions that come with it, the defining characteristic…
Director Goran Stolevski has given his sophomore feature, Of an Age, a suitably malleable title that effectively expresses the various thematic and emotional preoccupations…