How many great filmmakers have been lost as a result of disease and human catastrophe? That seems to be the question on the mind of documentary filmmaker Aaron ...
Ambiguity might be the most useful item in the science fiction toolbox. Blade Runner’s mysteries still rob people of sleep, and you’d need a wall chart to work ...
The protagonist and namesake of Mohamed Ben Attia’s Hedi certainly isn’t cinema’s first leading man to seek validation from a more free-spirited woman, and it's...
Earlier this year, Kent Jones’ Hitchcock /Truffaut -- a documentary on the famous interview sessions between the two directors -- boasted perhaps the most chaot...
As the Venice Film Festival enters its final phase, the competition throws up perhaps its most unknown quantity as celebrated New York City polymath Laurie Ande...
If the films competing for the Gold Lion so far this year have taken an abstract, decorative or glamorized view of the real world, the ones being shown in the o...
A chance oddity has occurred in the great European festivals this year. With no clear discernable connection between them, biopics of arguably the three most fa...
Lobbing the proverbial one up for dissatisfied critics to knock out of the ballpark, Drake Doremus’ Equals is a love story set in a dystopian future where emoti...
How amazing it is that a human being one century from now can fire up their wind-powered neuro-image-emitter, put on Frederick Wiseman’s In Jackson Heights, and...
Irish-born, Berlin-based, Rory O'Connor has been covering the European film festival circuit since 2012. A regular contributor to The Film Stage, his work has also appeared in Frieze, The Playlist, and CineVue.
