In The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed, Ann, a lugubrious New Yorker, sleepwalks through her daily life––colorless job, perennially disapp...
In The Sweet East, a high school senior take a journey through fame, exploitation, and Delaware. Working from a script co-written with the influential critic N...
In The Zone of Interest a commander, his wife, and their four children live a life of bucolic bliss. They picnic by the lake. They doddle by the pool. When he ...
If you went to the movies in 1989 you might have heard Indiana Jones growl the line "it belongs in a museum." You'll hear him say it again in The Dial of Desti...
When Rigoberto Duplas, the worrying conceptual artist and antagonist of Amat Escalante's new film, tells Emiliano, our steadfast lead, that the cheap glass in ...
In Plan 75, Japan suffers two existential crises: the very real economic and societal strains of its aging population and, worse yet, a severe loss of empathy....
It's been a rocky year for Ulrich Seidl. As far back as last February, Rimini was winning over critics at the Berlinale (us included) with its bleak beauty and...
Editor's note: Last year at Berlinale, Rory O'Connor caught up with Quentin Dupieux who was there to premiere Incredible But True, which would go on to be the ...
A century from publication, Virginia Woolf’s Orlando: A Biography is still in vogue. Just before the pandemic, Tilda Swinton––who played Orlando in Sally Potte...
As years pass by and films rack up, it's only natural to associate directors with certain things. And none more so than Hong Sangsoo, for whom a new release us...
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.
