Oh, for a muse of bowl-cut hair that would ascend / The brightest heaven of invention!
A newly groomed Timothée Chalamet stars as Henry V in David Michôd's l...
Benicio Del Toro in Traffic, Julia Roberts in Erin Brockovich, Michael Douglas in Behind the Candelabra–Steven Soderbergh has directed a great many stars to car...
What is there yet to be done with a character like the Joker? Bruce Wayne's bête noire has been around almost as long as the Caped Crusader himself, which ...
Tastefully adorned Brooklyn apartments. Self-effacing dialogue. Lingering melancholy. A-list stars, including Adam Driver, comfily dressed-down, as if they’d sk...
Ad Astra is finally here. Lifting off this week at the Venice film festival with enormous ambitions if somewhat limited thrust, James Gray’s long-awaited sci-fi...
The director and star landed at the Locarno film festival to present a screening of Parasite and, last Monday, the festival awarded Song with its Excellency award....
A dark back-alley drowned in shadow; towering concrete walls on either side; on the top right a row of headstones overlook; the glimmer of a walking stick emerg...
If Ghost Town Anthologies and A Skin So Soft were emblematic of the two strains of Canadian auteur Denis Côté's recent work then his latest could be viewed as s...
The cross hangs heavy in the opening shot of Maternal, the first narrative feature from Italian documentary filmmaker Maura Delpero. In this introduction, we se...
In Ulrich Köhler’s 2018 film In My Room a man escapes–and thus finds catharsis–from his floundering, grown-up city life only after waking up to find that he, fo...
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.
