Ken Burns is more closely associated with the tweed jacket crowd than the bohemian, blowing dust off antiquarian events so that public access television has…
The world of Terence Davies’ Distant Voices, Still Lives is shown to have disappeared into the amber hues of the past right from the start,…
In the years since the latest round of Israeli occupation and destruction of Palestine, the people and lives we see are often the ones who…
Left-Handed Girl is a movie of debts: of money owed to hospitals and landlords, of time owed to family, of the obligations of history. For…
Stephen King wrote his novel The Running Man in 1972, and it was published a decade later under his pseudonym Richard Bachmann. At the time…
With his third feature film, The Things You Kill, Iranian-born filmmaker Alireza Khatami turns his perspicacious gaze away from the overtly political themes of Oblivion…
The cabin in the woods: as reliable a setup as there is in all of horror. The isolation of new lovers leaving the world and…
“Is this what the end of the world feels like?” The question is posed from one beleaguered raver to another, on a school bus somewhere…
Now in its third year, Film Fest Knox continues to be a model for what a small regional festival should be, combining highlights from the…
“What’s a pretty girl like you,” asks Don King, the all-time boxing promoter played by Chad L. Coleman, “doing getting punched in the face?” Christy…
A promotional email hit my inbox last month that cut through the static fuzz, the torrential downpour of inbox shit, and caught me off guard.…
Myrtle Gordon, the actress played with dazed, turbulent ferocity by Gena Rowlands in John Cassavetes’ 1977 film Opening Night, struggles to articulate her problem with…
“People are cheap, water is expensive.” So says Reza (Erkan Kolçak Köstendil), the mysterious and curiously educated drifter who stumbles into Ali’s (Ekin Koç) withered…
Ira Sachs’ 2010 short film Last Address presents an unadorned montage of New York City apartment buildings and rowhouses, each of which once housed an…
If you follow the news or perhaps live in one of the American cities where masked thugs are abducting people off the streets, having its…
During my short self-directed crash course on Argentine cinema last month, I was surprised how little had been written in English on the subject. There…
With Peter Hujar’s Day, writer-director Ira Sachs reteams with actor Ben Whishaw, trading the contemporary Paris of Passages (2023) for 1974 Manhattan. Whishaw stars as…
After bouts of dormancy and some pretty questionable installments, the Predator series seems to be experiencing a minor renaissance under the watch of filmmaker Dan…
There comes a tale from an antique land. A King ruled over a thin Isthmus, above and below which were two unfathomably large continents. A…
Love+War, the latest project produced by Little Monster Films, helmed by the dynamic documentarian duo of Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chair Vasarhelyi (Free Solo), couldn’t…
In Sentimental Value, there’s a scene where the veteran filmmaker Gustav Borg, played by Stellan Skarsgård, explains to his newly discovered lead actress, Rachel Kemp,…