With her first film in over a decade arriving to much acclaim on the fall festival circuit (including our own Venice review), there's still a few weeks to go b...
All About My Sisters, the nearly three-hour documentary debut from Wang Qiong, could be called All About My Sister. More specifically her sister Jin, who was a...
It was perhaps predestined Todd Haynes would one day make a film about the Velvet Underground. Predestined since Velvet Goldmine, at least, which—in a time whe...
There’s not much exposition in Hit the Road. In fact it takes most of Panah Panahi’s remarkable directorial debut, about a family traveling across northwestern...
With her sophomore feature, French writer, director, and provocateur Julia Ducournau has secured her place in film history and proven herself a serious talent....
Mike Mills could be described as a graphic designer. Or a musician. Or a music-video director. He’s a frequent collaborator of The National, directing a short ...
The concept behind Kyoshi Sugita’s Haruhara-san’s Recorder is resembling the structure of the Naoko Higashi poem on which it's based. Said poem, a tanka, is in...
Ted Fendt’s Outside Noise is largely noiseless. Without background music, following the lives of three women traveling back and forth between Vienna and Berlin...
Magical realism, or even history-fantasy hybrid films, serve the narrative purpose of allowing protagonists to transcend their experiential reality and find so...
With his directorial debut, poet-musician-actor Saul Williams has no desire to hold back. Neptune Frost, a technology-focused musical set in Rwanda co-directed...
