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…
The buzz around Connor Sen Warnick’s first feature, Characters Disappearing, has been humming since it screened at last year’s New/Next Film Festival in Baltimore. In…
For over 40 years, Beth B has been a singular force in independent filmmaking. The pioneer of the No Wave filmmaking movement, along with Scott…
It’s been five years since RS Benedict’s essay “Everyone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny” was published by Blood Knife. While Benedict focused on…
Among the standout films that played at this year’s Cannes Film Festival was The Dreamed Adventure, which earned Valeska Grisebach the Jury Prize and marked…
The sun rises every morning with the same indifference. It shines over moments of happiness and devastation alike, untouched by the private tragedies unfolding beneath…
Guy Maddin’s Careful is newly restored and once again bringing its unique, alpine, psycho-sexual mania to cinemagoers, who are perhaps a little better prepared for…
For a certain kind of action movie fan, DTV action has long been where the real hidden gems lie. From the long-touted Universal Soldier: Day…
Carla Simón’s parents passed away when she was only six years old. As an adult, she’s spent her filmmaking career unpacking what that’s meant to…
Xue Ma’s films are radically unique. There’s a strange romance, explicit and implicit, and a profane magic that permeates the Chinese ex-pat’s White River (2023),…
Argentinian filmmaker Lucio Castro likes it when you don’t quite know what you’re looking at. His first feature, End of the Century, was a time-travel…
In a fictional New York City, a wolf stalks through the night. This isn’t a typical wolf. She’s not prowling for a kill. This wolf…
A 106-minute wisp of a film that unspools like the searching nature of life, Alice Winocour’s Couture keeps alive the ethos of a filmmaker who…