“These three films, they're all masterful. They're extraordinary films, and they're actually quite different.” It’s mid-July in Switzerland and Todd Haynes is ...
Part mystery, part passionate romance, Aly Muritiba’s queer drama Private Desert is striking in the unexpected avenues its narrative takes, as well as the surp...
Rather than a dark comedy, Owen Kline’s directorial debut Funny Pages is perhaps more akin to slowly unfolding tragedy with a number of gut-busting gags. The s...
When watching documentarian Alex Pritz’s The Territory, the conflict becomes all-consuming. The Uru-eu-wau-wau, less than 200 of them, become the clear heroes....
Often a re-release is granted to some long-cherished classic or cult sensation. In the case of Lodge Kerrigan’s Keane, which played the festival circuit throug...
If it's become easy to forget the extent of Lena Dunham's talent it is, maybe, in direct proportion to how purely inescapable she was not even ten years ago. "...
Having grown up in rural Colorado, Max Walker-Silverman returned to a place he knows well for his directorial debut A Love Song. The Sundance and Berlinale sel...
If Carl Franklin may not have many films in his oeuvre, what’s present has certainly made its mark. His 1992 neo-noir One False Move was originally set by the ...
Directorial debuts rarely arrive as fully formed as Murina, Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović's riveting Cannes Camera d'Or winner that follows a coming-of-age journ...
Interviewing Claire Denis keeps one on their toes. Receptive to good ideas and quick to challenge any false note, the director—by most metrics one of our gre...
