Keeping the Mystery: Alice Rohrwacher on La Chimera, Mythology, and Morality
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, ...
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The People’s Joker Director Vera Drew on the Trans Awakening of Batman Forever and the Way Superhero Movies Could Survive
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 ...
Janet Planet Trailer Unveils Annie Baker’s Superb Debut
The nearly year-long span from discovering Janet Planet's existence to seeing a single frame was fraught with worry. What if the extraordinarily talented Annie...
Watch: Jonathan Glazer Directs Scarlett Johansson In Shakespeare-Heavy Prada Ad
Though likely shot before he gave literally the one Academy Awards speech worth anything on this godforsaken earth, we can submit his new Prada ad starring Sca...
Nick Newman and the Brooklyn Center for Theatre Research Present Amnesiascope, a New Screening Series, on April 12
Complementing recent work with the Roxy Cinema and BAM, I've begun a monthly screening series at the Brooklyn Center for Theatre Research. It's called Amnesias...
Palestinian Voices Speak In Exclusive Trailer for Sci-Fi Documentary Lyd
Safe to assume the ongoing atrocities in Gaza will engender cinema, fiction and documentary alike, further into the future than we can imagine. Decades of aggr...
Park Chan-wook Lines Up Next Film The Ax with Lee Byung-hun and Son Ye-jin Attached
Following up his noir melodrama Decision to Leave, Park Chan-wook ventured into the world of American television with the forthcoming Max series The Sympathize...
Ken Loach on The Old Oak, Why Every Film is a Documentary, and Artistic Solidarity
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...
Watch Hal Ashby’s Long-Lost Neil Young Concert Film Solo Trans
When none of us are generous enough to just buy an album (or join his notoriously unwieldy streaming service) there's been a surge of reinterest as Neil Young ...
12 Films to See in April
If the only April release was my top pick of the month it would be one of the finest lineups of the years, but thankfully there's more to recommend. Featuring ...