If who you are is a sin, what are the consequences of simply living your life? Traditional spiritualism clashes with modern individualism in Nader Saeivar’s…
William Kaufman makes movies like someone who saw the centerpiece bank shootout in Michael Mann’s Heat and internalized every beat of it, determined to bring new heights…
Seemingly participating in a new trend of grandiloquent, marquee-busting film titles that includes the Mosotho drama Mother, I Am Suffocating. This is My Last Film…
Perhaps more than any other contemporary director apart from Alain Guiraudie, French filmmaker Pierre Creton is committed to exploring eros as a philosophical proposition, the…
For a viewer who is familiar with Angela Schanelec’s cinema, in particular the three films she has made over the last 10 years, My Wife…
Plenty can go wrong on a school bus trip. In Serbia-born director Miroslav Terzić’s third feature, 3 Weeks After, what begins as a teenage hangout…
It’s wise for people in Nordic films to not, under any circumstances, celebrate life events with their family members. Ever since Thomas Vinterberg (re)traumatized hapless…
Aside from the late Jonas Mekas, Boston-based director Ross McElwee is probably the best-known practitioner of the diary film. For nearly 50 years, McElwee has…
Incldued in this dispatch: Pure Reason…
A longtime favorite filmmaker at InRO, this writer had only seen one work by Nicolás Pereda, Minotaur (2015) — a surreal exploration of stasis and…
Like few other working filmmakers, Ted Fendt has created for himself a functioning cinematic universe, full of characters seeking creative and intellectual stimulation and answers…
As they so often do, sixtysomething Bulgarian couple Marina (Tanya Shahova) and Gosha (Ivan Savov) spend their evening in front of the television after a…
Reverberation usually describes the phenomenon of a reflected and delayed sound impulse that, attenuated to the perceiving ear, has diverted into different manifestations from its…
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…
Spilling over with indeterminate parody-cum-reenactments of ’20s, ’30s, ’40s and ’50s motion picture nostalgia, this first real effort in galvanizing the slapstick potential of the…
Despite crediting the scholar and film critic Andrei Rus as a co-director, the latest and possibly trolliest Radu Jude film is really more of an…
At 87 minutes, Jean-Claude Rousseau’s Last Stop for the Circular Ticket is the longest film he’s made since his 1995 masterpiece The Enclosed Valley, but…
One of the hardest things to pull off in comedy is having characters who are knowingly foolish without also dragging the film around them into…
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…
Major credit is due to KVIFF for continuing to world-premiere some of the roughest documentaries from the Ukrainian frontline. Two years ago, the festival unveiled…
Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World, an entry in the PBS series American Masters directed by Sasha Waters (Gary Winogrand: All Things…