Revenge of the Mekons presents a portrait of a band whose...
I had a bit of a meta experience at the screening of Revenge of the Mekons the other night. Early in the film, the band jokes about...
Interview with Liv Corfixen and Nicolas Winding Refn on My Life...
In the new behind-the-scenes documentary about Only God Forgives, My Life Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn, we meet more than a writer/director caught up in his...
Ex Machina looks past AI to examine artificial sexuality — a...
As that other sci-fi movie featuring Domhnall Gleeson and Oscar Isaac looms (ahem, Star Wars VII), there's a small sci-fi suspense film pitting the two actors together over...
Clouds of Sils Maria examines the layers of celebrity identity with...
Not since Ingmar Bergman’s Persona, has a movie unpacked identities in flux as profoundly as Clouds of Sils Maria. Whereas Bergman concerned himself with...
Celebrating Record Store Day 2015 — 5 Top Films featuring Record...
In honor of Record Store Day, which takes place this Saturday, April 18, today’s post is dedicated to the best films that feature record stores or...
Film review in Film Comment: ‘The Lesson’ opens April 17 in...
"Film Comment" invited me to contribute a movie review not too long ago. They assigned me a small Bulgarian movie called The Lesson, directed by...
Baumbach continues to examine aging and identity with self-deprecating While We’re...
“The younger generation — it means retribution, you see. It comes, as if under a new banner, heralding the turn of fortune.”
—Henrik Ibsen, The...
White God takes the easy route to schlock over allegory– a...
Coupled with several striking film stills taken from the best moments of the movie (just look at the poster), the concept sounds interesting: In some alternate...
It Follows strips horror to its core — a film review
Sometimes you have to strip back the horror to make a horror movie work. It Follows does that to thrilling effect, keep gore to a...
“Travelling at Night with Jim Jarmusch” director Léa Rinaldi on working...
In all his years making movies, director Jim Jarmusch has never allowed anyone to shoot him at work. That is, until he met Léa Rinaldi, a French...