After helping filmmakers such as Todd Haynes, Ang Lee, and Todd Solondz shape their careers, James Schamus has finally made the leap from producer to director w...
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Actors put themselves in others’ skins -- or they put others’ heads inside their own. Television journalists adopt a persona and try to deliver important inform...
Performance and recreation have a greater presence in documentaries at this year’s Sundance than in many past. Pieter-Jan De Pue's The Land of the Enlightened, ...
Notes on Blindness is the kind of documentary that aims to be formally distinct -- something I wish was standard for the art. The film does more than simply tel...
The cinema of Kelly Reichardt lives in quiet, tender observations with deeply rooted characters and location. Even when adding a thriller element as with her la...
After the formally rigorous character studies of Afterschool and Simon Killer, director Antonio Campos seems like the ideal fit for the unsettling drama of Chri...
For all the criticism the found footage genre gets, like many a well-worn structure, there is still room to build. Operation Avalanche, from Matt Johnson and Jo...
There are no volunteer events, community service or positive team-building exercises to be found in Goat. Director Andrew Neel is focused instead on the most vi...
From the start, Tallulah, written and directed by Sian Heder (Orange is the New Black), boldly attempts to juggle its tone between comedy and tragedy. When we m...
