In 1947, ten years before becoming an actor, Philippe Garrel’s father, Maurice, joined a company of puppeteers. That piece of history is like a well of inspira...
For anyone keeping tabs on Bas Devos' career, it's notable that the drama of his latest film Here is set in motion by something as benign as a pot of soup. A c...
In Manodrome, cinema's enduring love for frustrated male loners is brought, kicking and screaming, into the cold light of the present day. Set in an unnamed, c...
Writing recently about the introduction of video umpires in baseball, of all things, Zach Helfand was skeptical: “accuracy is not the same as enjoyment,” he wr...
The characters of Tótem don’t just appear onscreen; they take it over. From the top there's the patriarch Roberto (Alberto Amador), who speaks using an electro...
Six years after directing his last feature, Dustin Guy Defa returns with The Adults, a film of complicated shared histories and gradually revealing inner lives...
A good conceit can go a long way. In 2017, a former U.S. Air Force member-turned-NSA translator named Reality Winner leaked a document to The Intercept exposin...
In BlackBerry, the rise of a blue-chip tech company sets the stage for the dissolution of a longstanding friendship. Sound familiar? Just wait ‘til you hear th...
Andrew Legge's Lola, a faux found footage film that plays with historical and science fiction, gives weight to an emerging idea: could this be the best year fo...
In the mid-length documentary I Saw, exiled Russian filmmaker Vadim Kostrov revisits an innocent day. It's autumn 2021 in Nizhny Tagil and two young men, Matve...
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.
