We discuss the films we’ve seen thus far at CIFF–including Ash is Purest White, Transit, Non-Fiction, and more–and about the strange and rewarding experience of attending the festival....
In time for The Death of Stalin’s theatrical expansion, we talked to Iannucci about finding that balance between historical accuracy and comedy, replicating Russia in London, and why he’s removing himself from the present to make sense of it....
One of the key figures responsible for the creation of some of the most expressive and existentially relatable characters of the last four decades, Nick Park ha...
From movies about penances for personal hells that seemed to last eternities to stories about revelatory summers over in a blink, these ten choices are all movies whose main appeal for me were about their manipulation, presentation, or subversion of the passage of time....
On a basic level, Paul Thomas Anderson makes films about magnetic presences — figures who emanate such greatness that it’s nearly as impossible for bystanders ...
As Jin, Cho strikes a classic movie star presence, delivering each line with a firm, upright swagger--but his cool exterior is always on the verge of breaking....
Late into Detroit, Kathryn Bigelow’s docudrama recounting the racial terrorism that took place at the Algiers hotel during the 1967 Detroit riots, one of the in...
In a sprawling conversation, we talked to the director about the challenges of working in an entirely different visual mode, the complexities of the atmospheric sound design, and the importance of making something that feels homemade....
Legendary documentary filmmaker Steve James has a gift for effortless empathy. His latest film, Abacus: Small Enough To Jail, is a formal and tonal departure, but also a reiteration of some of James’ most prevailing thematic interests....
A portrait of one working class family living in north Philly over the course of nearly a decade, Jonathan Olshefski’s debut, Quest, strives to demonstrate the ...
