It’s not much of a revelation to suggest that Sundance has gradually moved away from its independent roots and transformed into something more akin…
Conspicuously absent from the fall festival circuit, Fatih Akin’s Rhinegold bowed at the Filmfest Hamburg back in October 2022, and is only now getting…
If the recurring discourse cycles of online spaces, namely on Twitter, are to be believed, we are in for some seriously prudish times. Every…
On November 14, 2023, this year, the United States federal government released the National Climate Assessment, the latest report comprehensively spelling out the climate…
Pierre Creton’s acclaimed 2017 documentary Va, Toto! was, among other things, an examination of the lives of elderly gay men in rural France, depicting…
Daishi Matsunaga’s gay romantic drama, Egoist, based on Makoto Takayama’s autobiographical novel of the same name, follows Kōsuke Saitō (Ryohei Suzuki), a gay fashion…
Chinese-Korean director Zhang Lu has been a bit of a slow burn in the West. Despite having directed 12 feature films since 2003, only…
Singaporean filmmaker Anthony Chen’s most impressive career achievement to-date might have come during the 2013 Golden Horse Awards, when his debut feature, Ilo Ilo,…
Implicit to the challenge “how do you want to live?” is the corollary: “how do you want to die?” This is the question at…
Here’s a scenario: your day starts with a pregnancy scare. Then, you find your sister has run away from school, and on top of…
From his early short films to his two breakout features, Stranger by the Lake (2013) and Staying Vertical (2016), Alain Guiraudie has long conveyed…
Will-o’-the-Wisp, João Pedro Rodrigues’s long-awaited follow-up feature to The Ornithologist, almost seems to take the form of a sketch. Running a slender 67 minutes…
For years now, director Ursula Meier has been interested in boundaries and the reasons we cross them. Her debut feature Strong Shoulders (2003) is…
The Swimmer is yet another skin-thin film about gay men that is unfortunately more interested in titillation than characterization. The Israeli gay coming-of-age drama The…
Petrov’s Flu is an entirely maximalist formal exercise, one boasting a technical bravura that will impress as many as it puts off. A smoker’s cough…
Ozon’s frivolous Fassbinder homage doesn’t quite engrave much that is substantive or memorable. Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s tragically short and tormented life has been the…
Girl Picture is a pop-oriented confection of little substance, vapid writing, and seeming contempt for its characters. Alli Haapasalo’s Girl Picture is a confounding frustration.…
Marx Can Wait is a beautiful late work from an artist still pushing the limits of his self-exploration. One of the great canonical directors…