In William S. Burroughs’ novella Queer, Lee takes Allerton, the object of his all-consuming desire, to see Jean Cocteau’s Orpheus. “In the dark theater,” Burroughs…
During an interview with Variety about their latest venture, Heretic, the writer-director duo Scott Beck and Bryan Woods (who rose to prominence for penning…
The title of A24’s newest tragicomic offering, We Live in Time, recalls the gleeful cliché of romance films from the decade past: The Time…
“We don’t want to scare people,” a director says at the beginning of Aaron Schimberg’s A Different Man. It’s the set of a workplace…
The rise of A24 as a production company and distributor has seen with it the public recognition, on Tik Tok and Reddit, of the…
Ti West’s 2022 slasher pastiche X was somewhat of a return to form for a guy who keeps trying to make horror films that…
A mother and daughter’s symbiotic bond fuels the artistic crucible that underlies Janet Planet. Such a description, let alone the title, might indicate a…
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With his breakout directorial feature Ex Machina, Alex Garland reduced a story that demanded to question the relationship between a body and a soul…
“Toys are too preoccupied with fun,” Alejandro (Julio Torres) declares in a cover letter to Hasbro during the opening of Torres’ debut feature film…
Arriving less than a month after the release of Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke’s queer crime-comedy Drive-Away Dolls, Love Lies Bleeding, from British filmmaker Rose Glass,…
The abstraction of narrative devices to facilitate a certain tenor has lent itself, among certain circles, to the term “tone poetry.” While cinema has…
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The issue at the heart of Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest is one of the oldest in the cinema: how does one represent…
Back in the mid-2000s, there was an Internet phenomenon called “Ever Dream This Man?” in which thousands of strangers around the globe claimed to…
Sofia Coppola has been chronicling the private spaces and inner lives of young women for her entire career and her new film Priscilla —…
There’s an undeniable novelty that introduces Thomas Hardiman’s directorial debut, Medusa Deluxe. On its surface, the film promises to be a lively, twisty —…
No doubt this has been said elsewhere already, but the most effective horror traffics in an unreality that’s very much tethered to our real…