For a long, long time we've heard word Michael Mann was co-writing a sequel / prequel novel to his indelible (and about 25 other adjectives) 1995 crime film He...
One of the most fruitful collaborations in cinema history has been between Claire Denis and Stuart Staples' band Tindersticks. After working together on a numb...
You no doubt recognize the above still—if you follow the what's-what of independent film it's probably been on your radar since January 2021, when We're All Go...
The bar’s so low it doesn’t exactly speak volumes when I say now—of all times, for some reason—is a banner moment for spotlighting Hungarian cinema. As Kino’s ...
A major winner at Cannes; a selection at NYFF, Sundance, TIFF, BFI London, and Sundance; a forthcoming release on The Criterion Collection; among numerous best...
Steven Soderbergh movies practically come faster than they're made, but so long as the recent standard of quality from his HBO Max work—and how Let Them All Ta...
Following his directorial breakout Hedwig and the Angry Inch in 2001, John Cameron Mitchell followed it up a half-a-decade later with 2006's subversive sex dra...
The world of Kanye West is so dense—the scandals, the fashion, the girlfriends, the religious services, and even sometimes music—that it was easy not to notice...
After last year's wildly divisive New Order, Michel Franco returns this month with a drama of a much different stripe. Sundown, which played at Venice, TIFF, B...
With fears our winter travel will need a, let's say, reconsideration, the Criterion Channel’s monthly programming could hardly come at a better moment. High on...
After graduating from Hampshire College with a degree in music theory, Leonard Pearce turned his passions to film and writing. He lives in upstate NY with his wife Laura and cat Tardi.
