Venice Review: Jerry Lewis’ The Day the Clown Cried Emerges in From Darkness to Light
“What if woody Allen had brain injury,” remarks the comic Adam Friedland in his rather direct Letterboxd review of Jerry Lewis’ The Ladies Man. Continuing a t...
David Katz
Venice Review: Alex Ross Perry’s Pavements Both Reinvents and Justifies the Rock Doc
If the Hollywood superhero-industrial complex is perishing, the Rolling Stone and Spin magazine extended universe is hastily being built. What better defines “...
Locarno Review: The Seed of the Sacred Fig is a Shape-Shifting Thriller Where Iranian Protests Manifest in the Family Home
Here’s a film that asks, in the vein of another's title: did you wonder who fired the gun? Yet in Mohammad Rasoulof’s The Seed of the Sacred Fig, which is set ...
Locarno Review: By the Stream Sees Hong Sangsoo Excelling in a More Narrative-Driven Mode
The death of the author is the birth of the reader, as we know from post-structuralist thought; then again, there are Hong Sangsoo’s public remarks. A charming...
Locarno Review: Foul Evil Deeds Is a Very British Anthology of Wrongdoing
Indiewire having encouraged us to reminisce about the 2000s through its recent Best of the Decade list, there's the reminder of one key thread defining that er...
Locarno Review: Transamazonia Hypnotically Finds Healing and Spirituality in the Jungle
Pia Marais’ Transamazonia seeks to connect us to its characters and the environment containing them, but we leave the film far more imprinted by the latter. Th...
Locarno Review: Radu Jude Returns with Provocative, Amusing Eight Postcards from Utopia and Sleep #2
A year since Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World amused us so, Radu Jude has now unveiled two new experimental found-footage films in Locarno. And...
Memoir of a Snail Review: Adam Elliot Returns with Black-Comic Claymation Melancholy
Grace Pudel (the voice of Succession’s Sarah Snook) is wishing goodbye to her elderly friend Pinky (Jacki Weaver), who’s currently prone on her deathbed. Once ...
Cannes Review: To a Land Unknown Tells a Bitter Poem of Palestinian Exile
The tragic predicament of the Palestinians and what they’re now being subjected to begs to be analyzed and dissected, with various areas of dubious historical ...
Berlinale Review: Philippe Lesage’s Who by Fire Provides a Tempered and Muted Blaze
You’d expect the pivotal music cue in Philippe Lesage’s Who by Fire to be its namesake by Leonard Cohen, a beautiful and plaintive prayer of a song. But instea...
David Katz
David Katz has been a freelance film journalist for over a decade. Born in Columbus, Ohio and raised in London, he primarily writes for the trade publication Cineuropa, but also loves popping up at The Film Stage from time to time.