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Prix Iris 2024: Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person Leads “Quebec Oscars” Noms
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Ariane Louis-Seize‘s Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (winner of the Director’s Award at Giornate degli Autori section in Venice Film Festival last year) leads all nominations at the Prix Iris (aka Quebec Oscars) with a total of twenty-two including...
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WOMAN OF THE HOUR Review: A Date with a Killer
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Women are not believed. This has been true for decades (if not centuries) and it has allowed men to perpetrate terrible crimes, almost in plain sight, without remorse or consequences. I realise this is something of a blanket statement (yes,...
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“Shut Up, Shut Up, Listen”: Julia Loktev on My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow
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For a certain kind of cinephile (e.g. me) more than a decade’s been spent wondering about Julia Loktev. The brilliant director behind Day Night Day Night and The Loneliest Planet has been largely off-the-grid since the latter’s release in 2011,...
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Polish Film Festival 2024: ‘Under the Volcano,’ ‘The Girl with a Needle,’ ‘Night Silence,’ & More
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The 49th edition of the festival was a showcase of more liberal sentiments and artistic styles. The post Polish Film Festival 2024: ‘Under the Volcano,’ ‘The Girl with a Needle,’ ‘Night Silence,’ & More appeared first on Slant Magazine.
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NYFF Review: The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire is a Bold Rethinking of Black Surrealism 
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The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire, the feature debut from artist and filmmaker Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich, aims to foreground its primary literary material and historical context, but instead directs more attention to its oneiric touches and environmental phenomena––the “wind in the trees,”...
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London Film Festival 2024 Preview
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A preview of this year's event.
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“Megalopolis” and “Joker: Folie à Deux”; or, The Virtue of Burning Money
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How many times in a filmmaker’s life do they get the chance to do something that makes no sense to anyone but them? 
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Camera Japan Rotterdam 2024 Review: ALL THE SONGS WE NEVER SANG Makes For Fine Family Drama
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September in the Netherlands means that the Camera Japan Festival is visiting again, first in Rotterdam and a week later in Amsterdam. Primarily it's a film festival, but music and food always have an important role as well. Often there...
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48th Résidence du Festival de Cannes: Animalia’s Sofia Alaoui Among the Half Dozen Invites
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Franco-Moroccan filmmaker Sofia Alaoui (behind the brilliant Sundance Grand Prize-winning short So What If the Goats Die (2020) and the equally mystical supernatural bowl of soup feature in 2023’s Animalia) is among the half dozen invited guests to the Résidence...
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THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG Trailer: Mohammad Rasoulof’s Gripping Thriller Arrives in November
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When it premiered at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, writer-director Mohammad Rasoulof’s secretly-shot thriller The Seed of the Sacred Fig made headlines. Marking his first project to debut following his exile from his native Iran, after being sentenced to 8...
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