At times, Laberint Sequences, the new short film by Blake Williams, feels a bit like an experimental feature, despite being only 20 minutes long.…
In her remarkable 2021 book on James Benning’s Ten Skies, critic and scholar Erika Balsom remarks that the film “at once rewards a close…
The ghosts of the Vietnam War now outrank the survivors. After fifty years, it may as well be ancient history, with Ken Burns’ recent…
Best known as one of three credited writers on Joseph Kahn’s 14-minute Power Rangers (2015) short — alongside the director and James Van Der…
In his landmark 1993 work Culture and Imperialism, historian Edward W. Said observes, “peoples being conscious of themselves as prisoners in their own land……
Society has always had something of a morbid curiosity with true crime. From Jack the Ripper and In Cold Blood to the near-constant stream…
In the summer of 1969, thousands of music fans gathered for a once-in-a-lifetime show that would change the course of rock history. Bona fide…
There have been a number of meta-cinematic works over the years that detail the plans for a film that a maker had in mind,…
Somewhere along the line, not all that long ago, Arnaud Desplechin ceased to be a marketable name in the U.S. film biz. While certainly…
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.…
Ballet school drama Neneh Superstar is the kind of film that gives festivals like Rendez-Vous with French Cinema a reason to reach out to…
Three Nights a Week is less the love story between a straight man and a drag queen it has been billed as, and rather…
Classified as a documentary in the Berlin festival catalog, Tatiana Huezo’s new film The Echo is more accurately clarified as a scripted film shot…
In experimenting with narrative in the cinema, we take on a capacity for expression that currently has no real affinities or structures. The imagination…
With Notes from Eremocene, experimental documentary filmmaker Viera Čákanyová rounds off her informal “post-human trilogy” comprising 2019’s FREM — a futurist meditation on the…
Dancing Queen, the third theatrical feature by Aurora Gossé, who has already made a handful of domestic Norwegian TV series and shorts, boasts a…
It’s arguably a Sisyphean task to adapt Henry James’ late work to the screen, and in particular his 1903 novella The Beast in the…
If the camera produces an impression of a visualizable and material reality, how can the apparatus of cinema stand in for an abstract and…