If you combine Blue Ruin’s lack of a clearly discernible story and exercise in genre with Jauja’s teases of magical realism and self-consciously mythic narrativ...
The mere mention of BBC Films conjures gentle images of passive Sunday-afternoon TV movies with some nice acting, nice costumes, and a nice score, all resulting...
The contemporary is overrated; sometimes, we have to look back in order to move forward; the new is always found in the old. These are some of the obvious mantr...
Following its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, Diego Ongaro’s Bob and the Trees was featured in the main competition at Karlovy V...
A found footage film set in a high school, The Gallows is a movie (essentially) made by teenagers, with a teenager’s intelligence, and for teenagers. This micro...
After the tight scripting and austere formalism of his previous feature Stations of the Cross – a film divided into 14 chapters, each shot in a single take and ...
Everyone who has heard their voice recorded on a video camera has wondered, “Is that what I really sound like?” This thought is typically followed up by a quest...
Having continually proven that they can repackage the same general structure and archetypes into their cinematic universe for increasing box-office returns, Mar...
Radu Muntean is regularly associated with the directors of the Romanian New Wave. Like many of the films to emerge from this remarkably enduring ‘movement’, One...
Early into Mediterranea, Jonas Carpignano's debut feature, a pair of African immigrants who've recently arrived in Italy are standing on the platform of a rural...
