To paraphrase Kent Jones on John Carpenter: America doesn’t have so many great directors to spare that it can afford to let Hal Hartley fall through the cracks. It’s been 11 years since Ned Rifle, and while a spate of...
Following up the double dose of last year’s Challengers and Queer, Luca Guadagnino is readying a fall release for his next feature, After the Hunt. Led by Julia Roberts, Ayo Edebiri, Andrew Garfield, Michael Stulbarg, and Chloë Sevigny, the psychological...
Welcome to The B-Side! Here we talk about movie stars and movie directors! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between. Sometimes we are lucky enough to even speak...
Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 Venice coverage. Cloud opens in theaters on July 18. Kiyoshi Kurosawa is having quite the year. Chime, a mid-length chiller, was a standout at the Berlinale. A French-language remake...
Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 Venice coverage. No Sleep Till opens in theaters and arrives on Metrograph at Home on July 18. A hurricane is coming and Atlantic Beach, Florida is directly in its...
Norwegian filmmaker Nina Knag unpacks how her morally complex debut feature interrogates power, privilege, and female desire, blending psychological realism, social critique, and quiet provocation into an unflinching character study shaped by empathy and ethical tension. [Read the whole post...
Director Mstyslav Chernov reflects on the ethical, storytelling, and aesthetic challenges of documenting war from within a Ukrainian platoon, offering insight into the filmmaking choices behind his visceral new documentary. [Read the whole post on screenanarchy.com...]
Young climate change scientist, Elias falls in love with an aspiring singer, Anita. But when an opportunity arises for him to join a mission researching a dangerous climate change phenomenon—a mysterious fracture on the ocean floor—he chooses career over love....