Léa Seydoux tells me "it may be nicer to have eye contact." Though I was informed our interview would be audio-only––no complaints; time with the most exciting...
This month, Metrograph is running “Novel Encounters: The Films of Lee Chang-dong,” a retrospective of the filmmaker’s career to date. The program includes four...
“We are so excited to have you here and are blown away this is even happening,” I signed off on a hasty call to Coop Vidéo de Montréal, setting up an interview...
Every time I've seen The Beast there comes some point where I think Bertrand Bonello is the world's greatest under-60 filmmaker. Not quite a new stance for me ...
In Alice Rohrwacher’s La Chimera, the Italian writer-director’s fourth narrative feature film, the past melds with the present. Art is something to be dug up, ...
After a year-and-a-half of copyright drama, The People’s Joker is finally here. The daring mixture of both tones and form will be sure to impress anyone, even ...
An expectation of finality has followed Ken Loach’s The Old Oak since its premiere at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival. “When you’re doing it, you’re doing it, yo...
If you were there, you remember. 2018 was the summer of MoviePass, a glorious period in cinema history where millions said "why not” and took a chance to see n...
Few films capture the trials and tribulations of twenty-something waywardness rooted in economic realities of today so eloquently and humorously as Ryan Martin...
In the recent decades of Hollywood exporting slapped-together "children's movies" to appease parents just looking to take their kids to anything that can pass ...
