He Needed Love Like All the Rest: Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt’s “Diamantino”
Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt’s work has been gaining traction on the festival circuit...
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Cosmic Solitude: Claire Denis’ “High Life”
The cliché goes that outer space is the final frontier, a seemingly limitless expanse, void of...
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Conceptual Confusion: Tsai Ming-liang’s “Your Face”
Tsai Ming-liang has been moving steadily away from narrative cinema in the five years since Stray...
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We Can’t Go Home Again: Ying Liang’s “A Family Tour”
Ying Liang’s When Night Falls (2012) is one of the more powerful works of historical fiction to...
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The Weight of Time: Jia Zhangke’s “Ash Is Purest White”
It’s been over twenty years since Xiao Wu (1997), the debut feature from master filmmaker Jia...
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Top Five Films at the 53rd Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) experienced one of its best years this past...
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Homesick Blues: Urban Malaise in “Suburban Birds” and “Closing Time”
Much has been said and written in regards to the sprawling urbanization and industrialization of...
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Allowing Reality In: An Interview with Christopher Jason Bell
Christopher Jason Bell should be a better known filmmaker. In addition to hosting a program at the...
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Growing Pains: Two Teen Films at the 71st Locarno Film Festival
Several directors competing for the Golden Leopard at this year’s Locarno Film Festival made films...
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Vintage Violence: Shin’ya Tsukamoto’s “Killing”
To follow Shin’ya Tsukamoto’s trajectory over the last four decades is to see the director...
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A Myriad of Myths: Andrea Bussmann’s “Fausto”
The beach at Oaxaca, Mexico is at turns a warm paradise and a desolate stretch of sand. It is...
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Spotlight on Grasshopper Film, an Adventurous Film Distributor
Since its start in the fall of 2015, Grasshopper Film has become one of America’s most adventurous...
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