Forrest Cardamenis

[ND/NF Review] The Fool

By now, the lengthy following shot to open a film is an art-house approved cliché. But in The Fool, Yuri Bykov complicates the shot in a way that makes it feel ...

[ND/NF Review] K

For Franz Kafka, The Castle is about the plight of the individual within oppressive societal customs and the absurd attempt to reach an unattainable. Michael Ha...

[ND/NF Review] The Great Man

A Great Man is divided up into five chapters, the first four of which trace the latter half of the first chapter’s “Hamilton and Markov” duo, while the final, f...

[ND/NF Review] Fort Buchanan

To the right crowd, there are a lot of familiar faces in Benjamin Crotty’s Fort Buchanan, a look into the life of a number of mostly-sexually frustrated army sp...

[Review] Li’l Quinquin

There is much talk about whether Li’l Quinquin, the latest from Bruno Dumont (Camille Claudel 1915, L'Humanité, Flandres) is a TV series or a film. It was commi...

[Review] 9 Full Moons

After Lev (Bret Roberts) decides Frankie (Amy Seimetz) is a bit too drunk and leaves the bar, she finds herself in the car with another man who subsequently rap...

‘Gone Girl’ and David Fincher’s Manipulation of Trust

“The sooner you look like yourself, the sooner you will feel like yourself.” People tell a lot of lies in Gone Girl, but perhaps none as big as that one. This is a film in which appearances and images of everything, from the big picture to the tiniest details, cannot be trusted....

[NYFF Review] Life of Riley

I suppose we ought to first get one thing straight: Alain Resnais is one of the greatest directors who ever lived, and Life of Riley is his final film, premieri...

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