In Manodrome, cinema's enduring love for frustrated male loners is brought, kicking and screaming, into the cold light of the present day. Set in an unnamed, c...
There is a casual vibe to The Forger, written and directed by Maggie Peren, that reflects its hero's stubborn optimism in the face of very real danger. This in...
Purchasing and shooting on celluloid film, especially in this age of closing processing labs, is expensive for large and smaller productions alike: the documen...
Guy Ritchie’s trajectory from distinctive pop-auteur to journeyman director-for-hire has been fascinating to witness. Making his name in the late 'nineties'90s...
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...
While there aren’t many palm trees in sight, the stretch of endless power lines in Lea’s (Lily McInerny) surroundings mirror the nature of her repetitive exist...
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...
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...
