How often do you think about dolphins? It's a topic worth turning over, which makes especially valuable (deep breath as I say the title) John Lilly and the Ear...
Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 Rotterdam coverage. The film opens in theaters on March 27.
The first time I came across the ...
It is not without possibility that John C. Lilly was so strange, complex, and plainly fascinating a figure that it took two of the most adventurous working fil...
Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 Berlinale coverage. Invention opens in theaters on April 18.
Grieving comes in many guise...
Last year I was fortunate to see a rough cut of Invention, a new film by Courtney Stephens (Terra Femme, The American Sector) that toes the documentary-fiction...
In March I had the fortune to see a rough cut of Invention, a new film by Courtney Stephens (Terra Femme, The American Sector) that toes the documentary-fictio...
If it's been a patchy few years for Errol Morris––one solid doc in-between a bad Steve Bannon portrait and iffy look at John le Carré––our interest in his thor...
Courtney Stephens and Pacho Velez’s documentary The American Sector announces its intentions from the very beginning, starting with its first three juxtaposed ...