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To Sleep with Anger in the Present and Past
One of America’s best kept secrets, and perhaps greatest failure as a collective nation, is a little-known filmmaker named CharlesContinue Reading
Seeking Annihilation in Under the Skin
Western society has ingrained in many of us certain gendered expectations of behavior for grief over a loved one. MenContinue Reading
Till Death ★★½
Till death do us part. For Emma (Megan Fox), that won’t be long. She is to celebrate her eleven yearContinue Reading
Secret Defense: If Chantal Akerman Directed a Film Noir
Jacques Rivette is widely regarded to have been the most experimental and uncompromising filmmaker to arise from the Nouvelle VagueContinue Reading
The Saving Power of Storytelling in Sankofa
Sankofa, which in the Ghanaian Akan language means roughly “to retrieve,” starts with a model named Mona (Oyafunmike Ogulano) posingContinue Reading
Cinematic Time Travel in Lumière and Company
What kind of films would Stanley Kubrick have made if modern CGI was at his disposal? What would Tarkovsky haveContinue Reading
A Different Vantage Point of the Second World War in Europa Europa
As one of the most devastating events in the history of mankind, it was inevitable that the cinema industry wouldContinue Reading
The Soul of the Balkans in Ulysses’ Gaze
Theo Angelopoulos occupies a niche and very specific place in the history of cinema: his presence as a titan andContinue Reading
Elusive Connections in A Short Love Affair
Bae Ildo (Park Joong-hoon) is a tailor who runs away from his dead-end job at a shirt factory to anotherContinue Reading
The Films of Abbas Kiarostami
Abbas Kiarostami was at the forefront of the Iranian New Wave of cinema, telling stories to an international audience thatContinue Reading
