Advertisements In a stuffy English pub, a boy in a goofy barbershop quartet ensemble is wordlessly cruised by a man in biker’s leather, offered only a time and place scrawled on a holiday card. As directed, the boy arrives in the alleyway of their…
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Advertisements There is a single honeyed thread woven throughout the subdued quiet of Drunken Noodles — quite literally. In every change of “act” (which is also a change of lover), there is a title screen. An older man appears from behind, and…
Advertisements Tigers Can Be Seen in the Rain is a languid exploration of temporal space. Using ambient film taken on the streets of urban Montreal — alongside voice messages and images from what seems to be a life well-lived — Colombian writer-director…
Advertisements The magnificence of writer-director Ben Rivers’ latest offering, Mare’s Nest, is entirely in its willingness to hope. In this delightful fable, childhood becomes a universe unto itself, where the greatest hopes of the best of us are met with open arms,…
Advertisements There are cathedrals everywhere for those with eyes to see. In the case of the riveting AMC+ series Interview with the Vampire, there are shrines for every wayward sinner to create. Anne Rice’s timeless story follows Louis de Pointe du Lac,…
Advertisements Duwayne Dunham’s career is storied across mediums. In film, he’s built a lifelong creative partnership with some of the greats, and his editing hand has touched some of the biggest films of a generation: beginning as an assistant editor on Star…
Advertisements I’ve spent the last two years cradled in a small mountain town in the Pyrenees, the land that forged the blood of my ancestors. I swear they whisper to me at night, half-smoke and half-memory, and for a person who has…
Advertisements Music is a big part of Twin Peaks’ residents’ lives. This is made most evident in 2017’s Twin Peaks: The Return, the third season of the show which picks up where the second season left off in 1991. Nearly every episode…
Advertisements Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low is the kind of film you watch in a state of quasi-paralysis. The 1963 noir is both taut moral thriller and enthralling procedural — a film of relentless jaw-clenching tension and compulsive rhythm that sets the…
Advertisements Wes Anderson is, quite famously, a details guy. Perfect symmetry, immaculate composition, and absolute devotion to every tiny element of his dollhouse creations — his work (and that of his behind-the-scenes collaborators) is dazzling in its dedication to the little things.…
Fittingly, Kelly Reichardt's Cannes-closer is a portrait of a power-keg period of history glimpsed from the periphery, and a wry, withering film about living without integrity in an era that demands it.…
But sex—specifically recreational, playful, non-essential and maybe even politically ill-advised or frowned upon sex—is spoken of, thought of, cherished, and communicated through in Mickey 17 in a way that touts it as not just important, but a key aspect of existing.…
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Advertisements “The epic [is] for Israelis and the documentary for Palestinians.” That’s how legendary filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard is said to have wryly described Palestinian cinema — as being confined by its political reality to capturing only that reality. In the weeks following…
Nosferatu’s end is a vignette of a woman working to conform herself to her culture’s understanding of a proper woman, all so that her society might be safe and her city return to its proper order.…
Advertisements Documentary directors Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss’ most popular documentaries, Boys State and Girls State, follow two groups of carefully selected high schoolers tasked with hypothetically creating a democratic government from the ground up, as part of a prestigious summer program.…
