The latter-day work of Tsai Ming-liang—beginning, let's say, around 2009's Face or 2013's Stray Dogs, and extending at least to 2024's Abiding Nowhere—are not ...
Sundance is ostensibly a place of excitement and discovery—point origin for films that'll define the year to come and filmmakers who'll become leading lights y...
If, as Lou Reed said, writing about music is like trying to dance about architecture, writing about comedy is... let's assume there's a terrible metaphor that'...
As personal and profound as a documentary can be, Ross McElwee has crafted a moving testament to the life of his late son, Adrian, with Remake. As established ...
The opening titles ofThe Best Summer give us the only context we need: following the shoot of Billy Madison in 1995, director Tamra Davis took a camcorder and ...
Alex Cox has (reportedly) made his final film: a Western adaptation of Nikolai Gogol’s classic novel Dead Souls. The book follows a drifter in Tsarist Russia w...
Excavating her past in deeply moving ways, Spanish filmmaker Carla Simón has completed her family trilogy with Romería, following her debut Summer 1993 and Gol...
In 1973, Variety declared John Waters’ breakthrough film Pink Flamingos “one of the most vile, stupid and repulsive films ever made.” In 2022, that same film r...
Comedian John Early has been waiting for his film to be seen by audiences. Premiering at TIFF last fall, Early’s directorial debut is a sublime comedy that com...
There are some others making films like Mark Jenkin. His Bolex-shot, creaky-sounding cinema isn't the greatest system shock to those who've attended (one might...
