Songs of Earth On November 14, 2023, this year, the United States federal government released the National Climate Assessment, the latest report comprehensively spelling…
Maestro When the 2018 remake of old Hollywood standby A Star is Born dropped, it marked the culmination of over a decade’s worth of…
Strange Way of Life A 32-minute queer cowboy melodrama paid for by Yves Saint Laurent, Strange Way of Life is Pedro Almodóvar’s second English-language…
MMXX Few directors have explored the implications of real-time continuity — or a reasonable approximation thereof — as resolutely as Romanian director Cristi Puiu.…
The Delinquents Blanket declarations about three-hour-plus runtimes always seem curious when filmmakers employ said length for wildly different purposes. Though the sweeping epic may…
Next Goal Wins Consider the fortunes of Taika Waititi in just the last five years. Briefly heralded as one of the more exciting voices…
He Thought He Died Before He Thought He Died (2023), a friend spoke on his misgivings about 88:88 (2016), Isaiah Medina’s hitherto best-known film,…
Menus-Plaisirs: Les Troisgros For most of Frederick Wiseman’s career, the master documentarian has focused on the lives and institutions of the United States. His…
Les Indésirables “The real problem [or] the central mystery of politics is not sovereignty, but government; it is not God, but the angel; it…
Whew! It’s only September, but here at InRO it does feel like we’ve lived through at least two of ’em, having successfully trawled through Cannes,…
The Palace At first glance, the Gstaad Palace looks like the last vestige of European aristocracy. The town of Gstaad, Switzerland itself catered only…
Essential Truths of the Lake As yet another Hong Sang-soo project makes the rounds, surely to be followed in four to six months by…
River Director Yamaguchi Junta’s Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes was a delightful no-budget time travel comedy that hit the scene a couple of years…
Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World To the uninitiated, written descriptions of Radu Jude’s cinema might give the wrong…
Red Rooms In 2002, Olivier Assayas’ Demonlover premiered in competition at the Cannes Film Festival to a storm of controversy, eclipsed — for better…
Where the Devil Roams It’s difficult to parse the project of Toby Poser, John Adams, and Zelda Adams without relating it to the larger…
We admit it, we’re gluttons for guts, gore, and genre. An antidote to the flattened, self-serious, and artistically anonymous titles that occupy coveted festival…
Nomad (Director’s Cut) One of the finest films of the Hong Kong New Wave, Patrick Tam’s Nomad (1982), plays at this year’s NYAFF in…