Biographical documentaries, just like the biographical narrative film, tend to benefit from some specificity. Danny Boyle’s Steve Jobs movie was quickly forgot...
It’s late February and Abel Ferrara is sitting on the couch of a Berlin hotel room, slouched beside is his friend, muse, and confidante Willem Dafoe. They look...
In The World to Come, an unlikely romance blossoms against the rugged rural backdrop of the American Northeast. The action plays out during the year 1856 somew...
In The Disciple, a dedicated student of traditional North Indian music must grapple with the nagging feeling that he might not be quite good enough. The film i...
At one point in The Book of Vision, a young woman spins around in ecstasy, arms spread wide like a whirling dervish, before falling to the grass. The D.P. has ...
In the new documentary King of the Cruise, to put it in the simplest of terms, a king takes a cruise. This journey is a God’s eye tour of the Celebrity Eclipse...
Always bold to some degree, seldom less than ambitious, William Friedkin's career as a filmmaker has resulted in countless awards; box offices records broken; ...
It's difficult to exactly quantify the impact of Cristi Puiu's second feature. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu is a film about an ambulance worker's attempts to get...
For more than two and a half decades, the films of Jia Zhangke have given the world a poetic and deeply personal account of the shifting social plains of moder...
When DAU. Natasha premiered at the Berlinale less than a moon cycle ago it was unprecedented and an entirely unique film. We now have precedent for the DAU mov...
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.
