‘Dracula’ Radu Jude Interview
As one of contemporary cinema’s most incisive auteurs, Radu Jude returns to the competition of the Locarno Film Festival withContinue Reading
Category: Festival Coverage
Irkalla: Gilgamesh’s Dream ★★
Baghdad’s gritty reality and the ancient myths lingering among its ruins intertwine with the childlike imagination of Iraq’s future youngContinue Reading
Kerouac’s Road: The Beat of a Nation (documentary) ★★
America has a thing with myth making, one of the prominent interviewees remarks more than half-way through Ebs Burnough‘s dedicatedContinue Reading
Judas’ Gospel ★½
From the moment blasting heavy metal music throws the blood-red opening credits on the black screen, Giulio Base‘s fictional biopicContinue Reading
Don’t Let Me Die ★★½
Quiet tragedy, absurdist humor, and unsettling undertones of genre cinema blend in Andrei Epure‘s gloomy feature film debut. Expanding onContinue Reading
‘Dragonfly’ Jason Watkins Interview
At the 2025 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Jason Watkins discusses his role in Dragonfly, a genre-defying film by PaulContinue Reading
Follies ★½
At least on the surface, Éric K. Boulianne‘s uneven entry to the Locarno Film Festival’s Filmmakers of the Present sectionContinue Reading
Exile ★★½
Feverish colors, muted tones, and corroded surfaces immediately evoke the suffocating aura of systemic corruption haunting Mehdi Hmili‘s nightmarish thriller.Continue Reading
Bobò (documentary) ½
If one believes director Pippo Delbono, his documentary is one of humanism and humor. In 1995, Delbono discovered Bobò duringContinue Reading
Dragonfly ★★★★
The title of Paul Andrew Williams‘ disquieting drama, which premiered earlier this year at Tribeca and is now at KarlovyContinue Reading
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