Rumours Since his out-of-nowhere debut feature Tales from the Gimli Hospital in 1988, Winnipeg-based director Guy Maddin has become synonymous with a very particular…
ESSAYS A MAN CHISELING AWAY AT STONE: ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES’ ROBERT BEAVERS RETROSPECTIVE FEATURE BY: Andrew Reichel THE THIEF TURNS BARDIC: ON RAJ KAPOOR’S…
The Room Next Door Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar’s English-language films have operated in a particularly confessional mode. Featuring The Room Next Door’s co-star Tilda…
Eephus At first, Eephus holds the potential to make one quite sad. For this writer, the effect did not seem intentional and was more…
Scénarios The last image of Jean-Luc Godard’s last film Scénarios is one of the most heartbreaking in his long, storied, notorious, glorious, defining, essential…
All We Imagine As Light “This city takes time away from you,” says one of the seven disembodied voices introducing us to the wide-awake-at-night…
Pepe Just barely after the advent of photography, the concept of putting a camera in a balloon was born. Taken long before commercial air…
Anora The title character of Sean Baker’s Anora notably does not go by that name for most of the film, and appears uncomfortable when…
Babygirl Halina Reijn’s Babygirl is aware of the discourse. It’s read all the articles that have been passed around online, it knows what’s considered…
ESSAYS A MANDATED PSYCHOSIS: ON PETER WATKINS’ THE JOURNEY FEATURE BY: Alex Lei INTERVIEWS INTIMACY ON A BIG SCREEN: AN INTERVIEW WITH INDIA DONALDSON…
Dahomey Before making her feature film debut with 2019’s Atlantics, French-Senegalese director Mati Diop produced a series of poetic short films, all of which…
Hard Truths Six years ago, Mike Leigh produced his first war film, Peterloo, in which domestic unrest in 1819 led British troops to slaughter…
The Seed of the Sacred Fig As titles go, the latest from Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof epitomizes a rare fidelity to its subject. The…
By the Stream In “The Evolution of the Language of Cinema,” André Bazin famously argued that depth-of-field marked a dialectical leap forward in the…
Drowning Dry Pilgrims, Laurynas Bareiša’s previous feature, was an accomplished debut that explored a man’s inability to move past the senseless killing of his…
The Sparrow in the Chimney Those who have seen the Zürcher twins’ other works, The Strange Little Cat and The Girl and the Spider,…
Ababooned There’s a good chance you’ve never heard of André Forcier, the writer-director of the new comedy Ababooned. But he is actually one of…
ESSAYS TEMENOS 2024: ENIALOS, ORDERS XV-XVIII FEATURE BY: Andrew Reichel SOUND AND VISION IN ABEL GANCE’S NAPOLEON FEATURE BY: Milo Garner INTERVIEWS A WAY…