Memory ★★½
From its opening frames, Vladlena Sandu‘s essayist drama announces itself as an intimate reckoning with a childhood disrupted by violence,Continue Reading
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What We’re Watching – August 2022
World cinema is on our mind in this month’s What We’re Watching column, our critics writing on German, Russian, and Belgian cinema.Continue Reading
Dear Comrades! ★★★
The tenth story in Marguerite de Navarre’s 1558 collection of stories, ‘The Heptameron’ is, tonally, a far cry from theContinue Reading
In Memoriam, 2019-2020
Two years since the publication of our inaugural In Memoriam retrospective, we take the time now to look back atContinue Reading
Social Justice in Film
This month, it is more relevant than ever for our Retrospective Roundtable to focus on the theme of social justiceContinue Reading
Leto ★★★★
Leto is a delicate portrayal of a little known period in music history- 1980’s Leningrad, Russia- unfortunate enough to be released inContinue Reading
Fathers in Film
Published on Father’s Day, this month’s retrospective complements last month’s Mothers in Film which we wrote to celebrate Mother’s Day.Continue Reading
Mothers in Film
Our monthly retrospective comes a little earlier this month, and it’s for good reason. Today is Mother’s Day and weContinue Reading
Matt Schlee’s Top 10 Criterion Films
This month, a number of our critics share their 10 favorite titles from the Criterion Collection in celebration of theContinue Reading
Stalker (Blu-ray release) ★★★
In many ways, Stalker was Andrei Tarkovsky’s most arduous film to create. It is believed that he and a numberContinue Reading
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