“These three films, they're all masterful. They're extraordinary films, and they're actually quite different.” It’s mid-July in Switzerland and Todd Haynes is ...
In A Little Love Package, Vienna's institutions, people, buildings, and overlapping epochs make for a stiff drink: a bright, effervescent, lightly intoxicating...
In Tales of the Purple House, French-Iraqi filmmaker Abbas Fahdel and his wife, Lebanese artist Nour Ballouk, offer a collaborative video diary of the last few...
One of the more unlikely films to emerge from this year’s Locarno is the Thai debut Arnold Is a Model Student. In aesthetic, it resembles one of those well-hee...
Astrakhan fur is unique: dark, beautiful, and stripped exclusively from newborn lambs, even ones killed in their mother's womb. (Stella McCarthy once said it's...
The best word to describe Unrest is "clever." It isn't on the level of the artisans and thinkers it lovingly portrays—all the graphers (geo, carto, photo) and ...
What drops of cinema are still to be wrung from boxing? The new Japanese drama Small, Slow But Steady is about as calm and modest as its title suggests, but th...
In Corsage, Vicky Krieps delivers a performance brimming with salty despondency and inner life. Gasping for breath in the garment from which this film takes it...
A recent episode of Amazon's The Boys showed a superhero shrink to the size of an uncooked grain of rice and walk into the shaft of his lover's penis. The epis...
In the world of Gregoris Rentis’ Dogwatch, pirates are the new Godot. The greek filmmaker's feature documentary debut is all about waiting: waiting to leave, t...
Irish-born, Berlin-based, Rory O'Connor has been covering the European film festival circuit since 2012. A regular contributor to The Film Stage, his work has also appeared in Frieze, The Playlist, and CineVue.
