BAMcinemaFest Review: Ougie Pak Explores Greek Tragedy on the Fly in Clytaemnestra
Greek tragedy echos through the modern-day Korean #MeToo movement in Ougie Pak’s Clytaemnestra. Made on the fly at an acting workshop in Greece, the film follo...
Mark Asch
ND/NF Review: All the Light We Can See is a Radical and Rhapsodic Mexican Odyssey
“Perhaps what is needed now is a cinema that is no longer Latin but something else,” said the Mexican director Pablo Escoto Luna in an interview for his short ...
ND/NF Review: Azor is a John le Carré-Esque Submersion into the Height of The Dirty War
An almost suffocating air of secrecy permeates Azor, a Swiss-Argentinean coproduction concerning the mutual suspicion and damnable complicity of patrician Nort...
ND/NF Review: Giraffe Takes a Melancholic Look at a Changing Denmark
Like Jia Zhangke’s Still Life, Giraffe is a fiction sketched around the margins of an infrastructure project, capturing impressions of life and landscape in a ...
ND/NF Review: Servants is a Bressionian Spiritual Drama Set in the Former Czechoslovakia
The success of Paweł Pawlikowski’s Ida and Cold War has revealed, among arthouse audiences, a heretofore unimagined ravenous hunger for Eastern Bloc period dra...
ND/NF Review: Identifying Features Charts the Lives Erased and Distorted by Migration and Violence
The original Spanish-language title of Identifying Features is Sin Señas Particulares, or “No Particular Signs”—a reference to the individuating marks found, o...
NYFF Review: The Poignant My Mexican Bretzel Plays Like an Inversion of Stories We Tell
Assembled from a single couple’s trove of home movies—50 reels, nearly 30 hours, of 16mm footage captured at home and on vacation from the 1940s to the 1960s—M...
NYFF Review: Helen Keller’s Political Life Gets Illuminated in Her Socialist Smile
“I was blind, now I see. I was deaf, now I hear. I was dumb, now I speak,” said Helen Keller in one of her most quoted orations, in a speech telling how the “m...
TIFF Review: ‘Harriet’ is Beautiful But Burdened by Biopic Conventions
One of the most famous Americans who has ever lived, despite being born in the humblest circumstances imaginable; whose life was full of heroic actions with lif...
TIFF Review: ‘Saturday Fiction’ is Bursting with Sumptuous Movie-Movie Atmosphere
A filmmaker perhaps too prolific for his own good, Lou Ye takes his latest spin ‘round the festival circuit with Saturday Fiction, a movie stuffed to bursting w...
