Miguel Gomes' Best Director victory at Cannes likely struck a small but passionate group of cinephiles as a greater win for the cause. It had been nearly 20 ye...
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...
