Locarno in L.A. Review: ‘Destruction Babies’ Subverts the Action Genre
If Sion Sono directed the “Pick a fight with a stranger” sequence from Fight Club without any fantastical flourish, it’d come out something like Destruction Bab...
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Locarno in L.A. Review: ‘Dark Skull’ Demonstrates Chilling Formal Assurance
Independent films about inveterate fuckups are nearly pervasive enough to count as some sort of disease, but Dark Skull is less concerned with presenting its vi...
Locarno in L.A. Review: ‘The Challenge’ Examines the Absurdity of High-Class Falconry
Falconry is a proud tradition, millennia old, that is part of the common heritage of many cultures spanning multiple continents. The practice was originally dev...
First Teasers for Angela Schanelec’s Acclaimed ‘The Dreamed Path’ Draw from Robert Bresson
Since it debuted on the festival circuit last year, we've had our eye on The Dreamed Path, Angela Schanelec's first solo directing effort since 2010. While ...
15 Films to See in March
Ghosts, claws, David Lynch, gorillas, cannibalism, the afterlife, and more to experience in theaters this month....
Get Down to the Funky Beat in U.S. Trailer for Locarno Winner ‘The Human Surge’
Along with nabbing a "Filmmakers of the Present" award at this year's Locarno Film Festival, Eduardo Williams' The Human Surge has earned a berth of positiv...
Locarno and Acropolis Cinema Launching New Film Festival in Los Angeles
Swiss Consul General Emil Wyss has the complaisant good cheer one would expect of a diplomat. At a press conference in his Los Angeles home, he notes that t...
The Best Undistributed Films of 2016
Ten films from this year without a home in the US that deserve to be on your radar, and are hopefully already on the minds of some distributors....
First Teaser and Clips For Locarno-Winning, NYFF-Bound ‘The Ornithologist’
Winner of the Best Director award at this year's Locarno Film Festival, João Pedro Rodrigues' The Ornithologist follows a man's journey through Portugal in ...
Trailer for Radu Jude’s ‘Scarred Hearts’ Finds Romance and Humor in a Sanatorium
Following a premiere at Locarno, where we quite liked it, a trailer has arrived for Romanian director Radu Jude's latest drama Scarred Hearts. Described as ...