Purchasing and shooting on celluloid film, especially in this age of closing processing labs, is expensive for large and smaller productions alike: the documen...
The most visceral films are often described as sensory experiences. But how can a visual medium translate the sensations of smell without the aid of a John Wat...
Taking place between March 29 and April 9 at New York's Museum of Modern Art and Film at Lincoln Center, the 52nd edition of New Directors/New Films will comme...
Writing recently about the introduction of video umpires in baseball, of all things, Zach Helfand was skeptical: “accuracy is not the same as enjoyment,” he wr...
To be blunt about it, we’re reaching the sad, maybe inevitable stage where Beau Travail and its famous closing sequence are becoming subject to the dreaded “Se...
“Did you know that we keep on hearing after we’re dead?” The question comes up early into Lois Patiño’s Samsara but haunts the film from first shot to last, do...
One early pick for the most-acclaimed films of 2023 is Celine Song's directorial debut Past Lives, which premiered at Sundance before stopping by Berlinale. Ah...
The characters of Tótem don’t just appear onscreen; they take it over. From the top there's the patriarch Roberto (Alberto Amador), who speaks using an electro...
Watching over Beijing’s Xicheng district is an enormous white pagoda, a relic of the Kublai Khan rule, so majestic and otherworldly in looks and stature it mig...
Six years after directing his last feature, Dustin Guy Defa returns with The Adults, a film of complicated shared histories and gradually revealing inner lives...
