Although we weren’t crazy about Neill Blomkamp’s Demonic, the South African director remains one of the more exciting talents in genre filmmaking today. Betwee...
When director-writer Edson Oda was twelve years old, his uncle took his own life. And ever since that devastating tragedy, people only saw him as a man who com...
Two years on from swooping the Golden Bear in Berlin with Synonyms (one of our favorites of 2019), Nadav Lapid returns with Ahed's Knee, a fraught and blisteri...
After a grueling experience with HBO's Big Little Lies, Andrea Arnold returns with her first film in five years. Positioned somewhere in the world of documenta...
In 1991, Oliver Stone re-opened America’s deepest wound with JFK, a rousing, star-studded, 189-minute account of New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison’s i...
Relatively speaking, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi is having a good 2021. Less than six months on from picking up the Silver Bear in Berlin for Wheel of Fortune and Fantas...
As Sheffield Doc Fest wrapped its first online edition, we spoke with one of the most promising filmmakers to emerge from that discipline in recent years. With...
There's a nice quote in Abel Ferrara's 2014 film Pasolini: "The meaning of this parable is precisely the relationship of an author to the form he creates....
If your typical conversation with a Sparks devotee is fannish evangelizing about why you must hear this album and that album is better than its non-existent re...
François Ozon wanted to see Summer of 85 on screen for thirty years. He expected someone to turn Aidan Chambers’s book Dance on My Grave into a movie when read...
