Rediscover: Timecrimes
With the mainstreaming of the multiverse within visual media in recent years, good old-fashioned time travel almost seems a little dated in 2023. The concept of parallel universes has gained popularity...
View ArticleEverything Went Fine
At first, the family drama Everything Went Fine seems like a departure for French filmmaker François Ozon. He is best-known for thrillers and sexy films like Swimming Pool or Young & Beautiful, not...
View ArticleHilma
The first time you see a painting by artist Hilma af Klint, you might think it a contemporary work of art. However, af Klint was born over a century ago in Sweden, and her work is now largely...
View ArticleBlind Willow, Sleeping Woman
The stories and novels of contemporary Japanese author Haruki Murakami have always toed the line between the mundane and the dreamlike. Ambitionless protagonists go through the motions of their daily...
View ArticleNefarious
If you like your demons on the preachy side, then you may enjoy Nefarious. The rest of us will find Cary Solomon and Chuck Konzelman’s evangelical diatribe in devil’s clothing tedious, heavy-handed and...
View ArticleFrom the Vaults of Streaming Hell: Animal Farm (1954) vs. Animal Farm (1999)
A floridly-imagined political fantasia condensed into a timeless feedlot fable, George Orwell’s Animal Farm is one of the most significant short novels of the 20th century. Yet the book also has a...
View ArticleDe Humani Corporis Fabrica
Harvard University’s Sensory Ethnography Lab is dedicated to unlocking new ways of seeing, or at least inhabiting radical visual perspectives that arrest some unexpected way of engaging with the...
View ArticleOeuvre: Scorsese: The 50 Year Argument
Founded in 1963, during a window of opportunity when a publishing strike took all potential competitors out of circulation, the venerable New York Review of Books set out to forge an independent path...
View ArticleChevalier
At a certain point amongst the pre-eminent emergence of the MCU within popular cinematic culture, the lavish period drama fell out of style. This was, for better or worse, the domain of filmmakers like...
View ArticleBeau Is Afraid
The camera pushes in on him, tilting upward, and there is silence on the other end of the phone. No one says anything as the camera gets uncomfortably close, and finally we hear the dreaded words:...
View ArticleSomewhere in Queens
The protagonist in Ray Romano’s Somewhere in Queens is a true original, even within the storied cinematic history of sad-sack fathers just trying to look out for their kids. This is a man who is...
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Revisit: Exotica
For cinephiles living in the ‘90s, Atom Egoyan remains an important name for two films. The Sweet Hereafter (1997), based on the novel by Russell Banks and starring Ian Holm and Sarah Polley, was...
View ArticleThe Tank
Scott Walker’s The Tank possesses many of the ingredients for an effective creature feature, but unfortunately that’s because the writer-director’s second film borrows heavily from a well-worn horror...
View ArticleCriminally Underrated: Black Christmas (2006)
Mid-2000s horror remake: now that’s a phrase with baggage, liable to ignite hate, dismissal, defense and adoration in equal measure. Marcus Nispel and Platinum Dunes’ Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)...
View ArticleDry Ground Burning
A flame smolders steadily in central Brazil, a light illuminating a society fighting fire with fire, fundamentally subversive and brazenly provocative. Adirley Queirós’ latest feature set in his native...
View ArticleAre You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret.
Acknowledgment is an important component to any coming-of-age story. We must identify with the young protagonist, no matter how removed they are from our own upbringing, as they undergo trials that...
View ArticleTrenque Lauquen
The Argentine city of Trenque Lauquen, 276 miles from the bustle of Buenos Aires, had a population of about 40,000 as of the 2001 census. As depicted in the film Trenque Lauquen, the city is an...
View ArticleOeuvre: Scorsese: Silence
There are several fruitful hermeneutics with which to approach Silence: as accurate historical fiction, as a commentary on colonialism, as a text in the sub-discipline of philosophy of religion or from...
View ArticleSisu
Do Nazis have the highest death count of any group in cinema history? Indiana Jones dispatches Nazi creeps by the dozen in both Raiders of the Lost Ark and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade while...
View ArticleRediscover: Axe
Imagine a horror movie set in a remote farmhouse, where a pretty young woman takes care of her sick grandfather and knows how to use a hatchet. That’s much of the premise behind Ti West’s terrific 2022...
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