In the off hours, I've tried to stay busy, but often this has meant a lot of projects begun with the best of intentions that have proven destined to remain half-finished. Recently, I thought I woul...
2020-04-14 11:20:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Bruce Baillie: consummate filmmaker of the West Coast avant-garde. Co-founder of Canyon Cinema. Instiga...
2020-04-11 05:19:58 +0000 UTC View Post
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS.
Above is a still from the first shot of Tsai Ming...
2020-04-09 11:02:23 +0000 UTC View Post
It's strange. It seems patently obvious that Denis Côté is the most consistently interesting director...
2020-04-09 02:20:15 +0000 UTC View Post
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS MAJOR SPOILERS.
Destined to go down in the Wacky Title Hall...
2020-04-04 04:18:18 +0000 UTC View Post
As a special presentation during these days of international lockdown, filmmaker / artist Zia Anger has...
2020-04-03 23:37:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Signal 8 (Simon Liu, 2019)
Simon Liu's films are characterized by a tactility th...
2020-03-31 21:40:44 +0000 UTC View Post
SOME SPOILERS FOLLOW.
I understand why so many critics are impressed with Th...
2020-03-30 00:34:07 +0000 UTC View Post
As Guzmán states in the voiceover of his latest essay film, this is the twentieth film he has made abo...
2020-03-27 22:39:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Sadly, thanks to the unmatched global distribution of COVID-19, there will most likely be no 2020 Canne...
2020-03-26 23:52:54 +0000 UTC View Post
This is the second feature, and the first fiction work, from Galician auteur Lois Patiño, whose short ...
2020-03-24 02:15:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Sky Hopinka is a fascinating filmmaker for a number of reasons. Not only is he one of the most prominen...
2020-03-19 00:10:44 +0000 UTC View Post
It's just been a bit crazy, you know?
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2020-03-18 17:22:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Although this film has certain specific points of reference -- I'll get to that in a minute -- there is...
2020-03-14 23:19:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Honestly, I'm not going to pretend that I understand film distribution anymore. Here's a film that was ...
2020-03-06 22:31:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Romanian director Radu Jude's previous film, "I Do Not Care If We Go Down In History As Barbarians"...
2020-03-06 08:35:56 +0000 UTC View Post
In French, the word for photographic developer -- the chemical itself -- is révélateur, whic...
2020-03-06 02:51:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Z = |Z/Z•Z-1 mod 2|-1: Lavender Town Syndrome (Andrew Norman Wilson, 2019)
I e...
2020-03-02 05:12:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Although Marina de Van has made two feature films in the interim, it feels very much like her latest, <...
2020-03-01 20:33:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Although I am sure to see films this year that are somewhat better than The Wolf House, I will...
2020-03-01 06:31:27 +0000 UTC View Post
In Bart Testa's essay on Jack Chambers' experimental classic The Hart of London, he compares t...
2020-02-27 04:51:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Filmmaker Bette Gordon is probably best known for her 1983 feature film Variety, an experimental narrative from New York's Downtown scene that actually attained some commercial and critica...
2020-02-27 01:47:25 +0000 UTC View Post
I've been on the fence about this guy for a while now. I thought his second film Rubber was a ...
2020-02-17 07:32:48 +0000 UTC View Post
No, I didn't forget. But my review of Beanpole will be in the next issue of Cinema Scope. Here...
2020-02-12 22:27:26 +0000 UTC View Post
I don't know Bellocchio's work as well as I should, having seen only four of his films to date. However...
2020-02-12 22:22:32 +0000 UTC View Post
What a dazzler. Chytilová's fifth feature, and her follow-up to her stone masterpiece Daisies...
2020-02-07 23:23:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Miss Americana (Lana Wilson, 2020)
Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice...
2020-02-07 18:08:34 +0000 UTC View Post
This lovely short film (just under 30 minutes) is a poetic study of the titular port city in Chile, and...
2020-01-31 21:21:37 +0000 UTC View Post
I run hot and cold with Loznitsa. He pretty much make three different kinds of films: narrative fiction...
2020-01-30 23:20:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Much to my surprise, I ended up quite liking Midsommar. I don't want to give too much credence...
2020-01-28 21:23:24 +0000 UTC View Post