Sci-fi is the perfect playground to mirror the state of our own world in heightened situations. The future is fertile territory to take a modern concern, twist...
If Alain Guiraudie has still not quite transcended festival obscurity to become an American art-house staple, all the more credit to the films––they’ve never a...
After co-directing 2015’s Anomalisa with Charlie Kaufman, Duke Johnson's solo follow-up is an adaptation of the Donald E. Westlake's novel Memory. Paul Cole (A...
We love speaking with filmmaker Andrew Davis. In late 2023 The Fugitive director came on our podcast The B-Side to discuss a slew of hidden gems as well as the...
Back at New Directors/New Films in 2019, I was struck by Philippe Lesage's deeply moving, boldly structured coming-of-age tale Genesis, ultimately naming it on...
Initially considered the heir to Robert Bresson, Bruno Dumont shocked audiences in 2014 with the heel-turn of his Twin Peaks-inspired miniseries P'tit Quinquin...
"Focus the text" commands a translation app pop-up at the mid-point of Matías Piñeiro’s new experimental essay film You Burn Me. It’s a mantra that the Argenti...
After decades of celebrated performances in Italian cinema and television, Paola Cortellesi made her directorial debut with There's Still Tomorrow, a 1940s-set...
It’s mid-July and I’m sitting in my living room, wondering what Ben Burtt, the sound designer behind some of the most beloved cultural artefacts of the 20th ce...
Through the story of the religious leader Papá Liborio, Nino Martínez Sosa’s 2021 film Liborio deftly contends with the cultural, spiritual, and political forc...
