As the title would have us to expect, Beatrice Gibson’s At Night is indeed (mostly) a nocturnal film, but Gibson does so much more than…
Having seen all six Currents shorts programs at this year’s New York Film Festival, Program 3: Surface Noise emerged as the most successful of the…
In this dispatch: Behemoth!, Bardi…
Alex Serian has been away for a long time. At the start of Tony Gilroy’s Behemoth!, the gifted cellist (played with great commitment by Pedro…
There is a certain expectation that comes with a film’s selection for the Currents section of the New York Film Festival, not least because the…
It’s taken a while for cinephiles (including this writer) to catch up with the Vienna-based filmmaking duo of Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel. Their profile…
In this dispatch: Possible Love, Heil…
Rare is the film that earnestly inspires you to hold your loved ones closer. Rarer still is the film that does so while making room…
Whatever one thinks of Carlos Reygadas, it’s hard to argue against his ability to open a movie. His newest film Heil Jupiter!, largely spoken in…
In this dispatch: All of a Sudden…
The post-Drive My Car films of Ryûsuke Hamaguchi have built a case for the director as the most acclaimed contemporary filmmaker in the world. Even…
“Cinema has something premonitory about it,” says Elsa (Bárbara Lennie), the cult director-turned-adman at the center of Bitter Christmas. It’s a statement director Pedro Almodóvar…
“Is there even a suspect? Is there even a crime?” These words spoken by Detective Mijares (Alchris Galura) are as good a summation as you’re…
In this dispatch: The Day She Returns…
Every time a Hong Sang-soo film plays at a film festival, one can assume someone in the audience is encountering the prolific filmmaker for the…
It is perhaps inevitable that a higher number of films are going to be focused on the difficulties of aging as birth rates decline and…
Shin Godzilla exists in a class of its own, nearly experimental in its focus on political red tape in the face of a developing catastrophe,…
In this dispatch: A Long Winter…
Andrew Haigh has proven adept, at times exceptionally so, at crossing diverse conceptual landscapes. His relationship dramas, of both the young and queer (Weekend, Looking,…
Virginia Woolf’s seminal novel Mrs. Dalloway is a daunting candidate for cinematic representation, relying as it does on the detailed evocation of the inner lives…
In this dispatch: Life of Jorge Luis Borges…