The story begins twice: once with newspaper headlines informing us that Antoine Monnier’s young Charles has died mysteriously, and then we go back to six…
Whatever else you can say about Nico Ballesteros’ fascinating and frustrating In Whose Name?, it doesn’t make too many excuses for the downfall of Kanye…
When Robert Mitchum’s Jeff McCloud declared “Guys like me last forever” in Nicholas Ray’s Depression-haunted contemporary Western The Lusty Men (1952), it was hardly the…
The ever-varied and ever-botanically-focused Pierre Creton’s Still Life Primavera finds the director making one of the structural experiments that he previously dabbled in with films…
Anyone who has made as many masterpieces as the French experimental director Jean-Claude Rousseau deserves his occasional oddities and indulgences, but his new 10-minute short…
It wasn’t his debut or even his first major work, but Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s opening credits to Tropical Malady deliver perhaps the moment that summarizes everything…
Mani Ratnam is considered one of India’s finest directors, particularly among those working in the Tamil language, and is coming off a two-part critical and…
Josef von Sternberg always had a materialistic streak — it was a necessity to produce the kind of effects he was chasing. He never embraced…
Kaori Oda’s Underground is a film built around the meanings of its title, but it’s also apparently built up to 83 minutes out of reused…
It’s always a strange experience when a self-consciously campy horror film pulls out something genuinely emotional, if only for about a minute. Christopher Landon’s Drop…
Whatever else one can say about the merits of experimental film, “it looks expensive” is typically not one of the usual citations. Malena Szlam’s Archipelago…
The best of the experimental film programming at the Museum of the Moving Image’s First Look 2025 is actually found outside the program specifically dedicated…
“24 of your favorite stars in Nashville!” hollers the voiceover in the opening credits of Robert Altman’s consensus favorite and magnum opus. (We can ignore…
Would Jacques Demy’s The Umbrellas of Cherbourg still be an effective movie if it wasn’t entirely sung-through? It seems like an impossible question to answer…
The first two Will Hindle films that were shown in the complete recent Chicago retrospective Unknown Nostalgia (organized by InRO contributor and Tone Glow editor-in-chief Joshua Minsoo Kim) are…
After spending his early career transfiguring the aesthetics of early Jean-Luc Godard and other works from the French New Wave’s starting days for his own…
In the recent Motion Over Pictures: Two Evenings of Fred Worden retrospective at New York’s Spectacle Theater (co-organized by Paul Attard and Stephen Cappel, with…
Wang Bing films have a reputation for their difficulty, but the opening film in his Youth trilogy, Youth (Spring), managed to be surprisingly varied and…
The 1954 version of A Star is Born should never have turned out as well as it did. It was a remake of a remake…
Is there anything new to say about The Godfather? This might have been a worthwhile question even very shortly after it came out. The recent…
Robert Beavers’ 18-film cycle My Hand Outstretched to the Winged Distance and Sightless Measure, comprising the majority of both his filmography and a recent 25-film…