Matt Zoller Seitz on ‘The Oliver Stone Experience’ and the Decline of American Cinema
We talk to the author of a new Oliver Stone book, as well as some thoughts on American politics and cinema in general....
Ethan Vestby
Bertrand Bonello on ‘Nocturama,’ John Carpenter, and Finding Violence in Willow Smith
We talk to the director behind what's easily one of 2016's most formally and conceptually audacious works....
[TIFF Review] Salt and Fire
Many lament the “meme-ification” of Werner Herzog, a name once synonymous with masculinist, bravura filmmaking that risked the lives of cast and crew for the sa...
[TIFF Review] The Dreamed Path
Angela Schanelec’s The Dreamed Path is so beguiling that we, the audience, have to take comfort in pointing out its one clear structural point: it's split into ...
[TIFF Review] The Belko Experiment
With the overwhelming presence of ideology on contemporary film criticism (this writer will admit that the majority of his festival coverage last year likely me...
[TIFF Review] The Assignment
In his heyday, Walter Hill made films of a thirty-year-or-so dissonance, everything he made in the '80s owing itself to the '50s, be it Robert Aldrich-Burt Lanc...
[TIFF Review] Apprentice
Perhaps just another narrative about a millennial finding their calling, Apprentice zeroes in on Aiman (Fir Rahman), a man in his late '20s still living with hi...
[TIFF Review] Zoology
For a way in, maybe we can detect that Zoology writer-director Ivan I. Tverdovsky is a fan of sad-boy rock star Morrissey, because the first ten to fifteen minu...
[TIFF Review] The Death of Louis XIV
A fair question to ask: why The Sun King now? Perhaps American icons are always ripe for deconstruction as, after all, we have the world’s greatest (or rather d...
[Locarno Review] Bangkok Nites
Two echoing images. The film's very first, a reflection cast as our heroine, Luck (Subenja Pongkorn), stares into the glass window of a high-rise building as a ...
