The verdant hills of a resort’s private golf course serve as the backdrop for Rafael Manuel’s debut feature, Filipiñana; a strikingly picturesque setting that is…
You’d never know, just by looking at a Jesse V. Johnson picture, that he was working with much smaller budgets than the action you see…
Punk iconoclast Alex Cox isn’t going away quietly; in fact, he might not be going away at all — but let’s not get in the…
It’s no secret that Hollywood is currently trying to crack open the secret to Gen Z. What movies get them into a theater? What tests…
Shatara Michelle Ford is one of the unsung forces in American Independent cinema. Their debut feature, Test Pattern, was a quiet yet seismic announcement of…
Imagine operating on near-dying people every day in the most horrific conditions. Droves of broken bodies arriving at your hospital after mass bombings of civilian…
Sometimes you just need to get a little stupid with it. That’s not an insult; it’s a label writer/director Dylan Meyer wears proudly on her…
A few years ago while re-watching Jean-Luc Godard’s Histoire(s) du Cinéma, I was taken aback when 2a: Only Cinema ended with a durational shot of…
Flitting across genres from musical to beekeeping drama to heist movie to revenge thriller, yet rooted in the culture, ways of life, and eccentricities of…
In 1970, Robb Moss took a semester off from Berkeley and started wandering to wherever he could crash, first out to a friend’s farm in…
Kent Jones has long been one of cinema’s greatest thinkers, so to simply refer to him as a director seems a gross oversimplification for what…
In an era of Hong Kong cinema often defined by masculine action films, Stanley Kwan’s filmography stands out. With films like Rouge, Center Stage, and…
30 years ago, Ngozi Onwurah made history by becoming the first Black female filmmaker in Britain to have a film released theatrically. As she’ll tell…
Descriptors like “off-kilter” evoke something crooked, unbalanced, slanted, strange. These words are all, more or less, synonymous with the original meaning of the term “queer.”…
Sometimes all you want out of a movie is a really, really huge guy tearing smaller guys apart with his bare hands. Alan Ritchson has…
There isn’t a filmmaker out there quite like Danielle Arbid. The French-Lebanese director has crafted films about war, family, isolation, and the perils of love…
When you first see Flaco, the Eurasian eagle-owl that became a local New York City legend, appear on a hotel sidewalk, you immediately comprehend his…
Nicolas Winding Refn resists containment. His earliest films (the Pusher [1996-2005] trilogy and Bleeder [1999]) channel a forceful neo-realist intensity, while his subsequent works venture…
Through a career of empathetic, patient character studies, Japanese master Hirokazu Kore-eda has developed many running fascinations. Gaps in families, how we fill those, and…
Premiering all the way back during 2024’s festival season, Lorena Alvarado’s Lost Chapters has been a film I’d been looking forward to for quite some…
Ross McElwee is no stranger to candor in its most pure and intimate form. Decade after decade, his long, episodic filmography has one distinct and…