In this dispatch: Faith Lacking Deeds…
A more oblique interlocutor than Matthew McConaughey’s nihilist operative “Rust” Cohle in True Detective, Sawandi Groskind’s Staubwelt arguably dramatizes the central premise of philosophical pessimism…
The question of how to depict violence has plagued, or in other cases not bothered, filmmakers since the medium’s inception. In Felipe Rúgeles Pineda’s new…
In dreams, everyone is equal. Regardless of age, status, or character, we all sleep. In sleep, we all dream. And there, what happens is, for…
There is a playful disconnect between the title of Mokya Shin’s EASTER and its subject matter. Although South Korea’s most prominent religion (after atheism or…
Like his 2010 film Cologne Overnight, Declan Clarke’s latest, Love and the End of Romance in Czechoslovakia, takes an instructive approach. Title cards loaded with…
The portable camera is more accessible now than perhaps ever before, and as a result, the diary film seems to have found its footing within…
Incldued in this dispatch: Pure Reason…
Julian of Norwich was a religious mystic and anchoress in the Middle Ages. After a grave illness during which she experienced visions of Christ on…
One would be hard-pressed to identify a film director on the world stage who has done a better job of articulating our historical moment than…
Abortion Party Aside from the infamous “Barry Lyndon x ‘a lot’ by 21 Savage” edit that has been circulating on X since last year, the…
Copper In director Nicolás Pereda’s Copper, Lázaro (Pereda regular Lázaro Rodríguez) discovers a corpse by the side of the road. It’s unusual enough for him…
In director Nicolás Pereda’s Copper, Lázaro (Pereda regular Lázaro Rodríguez) discovers a corpse by the side of the road. It’s unusual enough for him to…
“I understood that this had little to do with Berlin and everything to do with me,” the unnamed narrator of Lauren Oyler’s Fake Accounts proffers…
Contemporary cinema has been overtaken by analog textures for quite some time. Combined with the wide variety of formats they appropriate — Super 8, 35mm,…
Jaime Rosales’ Morlaix opens with a montage: open rural landscapes stretching over hills and fields, cut through by roads and paths. Then, a sleepy town,…
Popular depiction of the Soviet Union used to hinge on the Cold War’s ideological expediencies, and only with the country’s dissolution in 1991 was there…
The extraction of minerals from the Congo has been an ongoing colonial expedition since the Belgian king, Leopold II, personally annexed the country’s land via…
Filmmakers working under the constraints of an oppressive regime must become very good at leaving things unsaid. The main ideas are often relegated to the…
Assaf Gruber’s Miraculous Accident provides us with what we might wish to distinguish as one of the first contemporary Jewish anti-Zionist fiction projects. With this,…
Drifting Laurent The world of Drifting Laurent, the sophomore feature by directors Anton Balekdjian, Léo Couture, and Mattéo Eustachon, is not too dissimilar from that…