Horror, as a cinematic genre, is continually thought about in terms of the monsters it creates. There’s Frankenstein, the Invisible Man, the creature from t...
How do we view film history when moving along with it? History, as a scholarly discipline, can almost feel like quantum mechanics: systems and perceptions c...
Although documentaries often present real-life people working in risk-filled areas, the results can be quite banal. Half of reality television is filled with po...
It’s a common story: a highly acclaimed art house director behind countless celebrated works finally comes to the United States for their English-language d...
Running a brief 72 minutes, The Strange Little Cat joins the hour-long Viola as 2013's second feature that will require multiple viewings, but ones which will p...
First image: absolute darkness. We hear the sounds of mechanical contraptions and can see small flashes of light. We’re inside a huge structure, but what causes...
Rainer Werner Fassbinder — just saying his name feels towering in itself, so the German director’s astronomical oeuvre feels equally fitting. The frenetic aut...
Any narrative of film history is, inevitably, peppered with simplifications -- a through line designed to connect the canonical works while ignoring complicat...
“I like to profit from what happens unplanned. The idea of the world as being something beyond what is seen is what I’m looking to express.”
-Matías Piñeir...
Since silent film first took shape and began to create a cinematic language (at least one for narrative cinema), film theorists have expounded on the beauty...
