Moonglow Writing in e-flux Journal on Klute’s semicentenary, Isabel Sandoval discussed in detail the immeasurable influence of Alan J. Pakula’s neo-noir crime thriller — especially…
After a long career as an actress, Marijana Janković stepped behind the camera to tell the story on her own terms. Her debut feature Home,…
One of the most impressive first features to debut in 2025 was My Father’s Shadow. Screened for the first time at the Cannes Film Festival,…
Moments in pop music come and go, but none in recent memory have been eulogized quite like brat summer. Within a year, the promotional tail…
There’s a school of thought that would read Pillion’s ending as a positive sentiment, in which a man who blunders his way into the BDSM…
Nightmare’s Advice Renaud Després-Larose and Ana Tapia Rousiouk, along with their frequent collaborator Olivier Godin, represent an alternative stream of Quebecois cinema, one that is…
As the Hong Kong film industry has been devoured by Mainland China, drawing its stars and directors away with the promise of big budgets and…
Poverty and opulence, the pastoral and the high-tech, war and peace, childhood and adulthood. Opposite ends of a variety of spectrums meet, and sometimes clash,…
In his 35mm short documentary Inang Maynila, James J. Robinson explored the textures of girlhood under the tumult of living in martial law in the…
Every threat to a sane and healthy life posed by AI is a continuation of some already existing social and political deterioration. Our societal tipping…
It’s June 1993 in rural Nigeria. Remi and his younger brother Akin (real-life brothers Chibuike Marvelous Egbo and Godwin Egbo) are bickering, eating food and…
First Light Nearly five years ago, Filipino-Australian filmmaker James J. Robinson hit the headlines after breaking into his alma mater St Kevin’s College, Melbourne’s elite…
Maryam Touzani’s Calle Málaga won the Audience Award at the Venice Film Festival’s new Spotlight Section, and the film is accordingly an audience-pleaser. Following her…
Chronovisor Even when Jorge Luis Borges wrote screenplays, they weren’t necessarily “Borgesian” — not, that is, distilled into the particular pleasure of following one of…
Reflecting on the publication of his novel Box Hill: A Story of Low Self-Esteem, Adam Mars-Jones noted that he intended his darkly humorous narrative of…
Film adaptations of video games can be a dicey proposition. Part of the issue lies in the elements getting lost in translation: the inherently immersive…
Director Suzannah Herbert’s documentary Natchez, which counts Sam Pollard among its executive producers and won this year’s Documentary Competition at the Tribeca Film Festival, captures…
Three Austrian documentaries from the past two years turn their gaze to the racially marginalized of the small mountain country. The oldest of the three,…
José Asunción Silva hangs over A Poet like a specter, haunting its messy proceedings. It’s no mistake that Colombia’s most famous poet weighs so heavily.…
The life of the tortured artist: society doesn’t understand them, friends and family abandon them, their audience doesn’t appreciate their work. From the artist’s perspective,…
The score of Jan-Ole Gerster’s Islands is one of the first signals about its intended genre and reference points: with lush, orchestral strings overlaid by…