Anora Following Red Rocket in 2021, Anora marks Sean Baker’s second straight feature in competition at Cannes, and this one comes with reports of packed…
Oh, Canada The title gives it away. Before one even begins watching Paul Schrader’s latest, the tone is effectively set by a little writerly in-joke…
The Invasion Moral judgments in artwork tend to be tinged in shades of gray. This is sometimes expressed by citing Jean Renoir’s unofficial motto that…
ESSAYS UNPLUGGING THE EMPATHY MACHINE: HIROKAZU KORE-EDA’S MONSTER AND RYÛSUKE HAMAGUCHI’S EVIL DOES NOT EXIST FEATURE BY: Theo Rollason SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE BATHS FEATURE BY:…
Of Living Without Illusion A long take is a relationship. It looks still and it contains and collides all its insides. Details from earlier —…
ESSAYS A SYNONYM FOR BELIEF: TENET AS FUGUE FEATURE BY: Milo Garner THE STUFF OF NIGHTMARES: SEX ON SCREEN AND IT FOLLOWS AT TEN FEATURE…
You Burn Me Matías Piñeiro is best known for loosely adapting Shakespearean texts via small-scaled, interpersonal dramas: Twelfth Night in Viola; Measure for Measure in…
The Book of Solutions Michel Gondry feels like an artist from another time, even if that time wasn’t very long ago. The only movie he…
RETROSPECTIVES #STRIKEGERMANY BERLINALE COUNTERPROGRAMMING: WRITINGS ON SELECTED WORKS FROM THE PALESTINIAN FILM ARCHIVE ARTICLE: Over Their Dead Bosies & The Upper Gate [Arab Loutfi] —…
Steppenwolf Kazakh filmmaker Adilkhan Yerzhanov has directed 15 films in the last 12 years, a breakneck pace to rival even Hong Sang-soo. Not many seem…
ESSAYS JAFAR PANAHI’S POST-ARREST FILMOGRAPHY: DELIBERATING DEFIANCE FEATURE BY: Dhruv Goyal EXPLODING ART WITH ARTIFICE: WES ANDERSON’S ROALD DAHL QUARTET FEATURE BY: Anand Sudha NOT…
Dear Kaita Ablaze France had the Comte de Lautréamont, a young writer who embodied the Romantic spirit even more than the Romantics, and thrust an…
Head South For as long as the cinematic form has existed, it has embraced nostalgia, that cultural drug which oversees virtually every socio-political framework known…
Citizen Weiner What do you get when you cross the clickbait sensibilities of TikTok with the winking ironies of the Marvel Cinematic Universe? A confused…
It’s impossible to talk about 2023 without talking about Barbie and Oppenheimer, two very different films that became seismic pop culture sensations, crushing the box…
It’s impossible to talk about 2023 without talking about Barbie and Oppenheimer, two very different films that became seismic pop culture sensations, crushing the box…
Uncropped In her 1977 essay collection On Photography, Susan Sontag argued that the abundance of photographic images in our culture had begun to engender “a…
Songs of Earth On November 14, 2023, this year, the United States federal government released the National Climate Assessment, the latest report comprehensively spelling out…
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 effort…
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 short…