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They Kill Horse Riders, Don’t They?: Ortega Puzzles with Deadpan Metaphors Nothing is what it appears to be in Argentinean Luis Ortega’s latest film Kill the Jockey, a crime comedy drama which becomes an increasingly complex exercise regarding identity. The...

The Eternal Daughter: Lenkiewicz Ladles the Milk of Sorrows Screenwriter Rebecca Lenkiewicz makes her directorial debut with Hot Milk, an adaptation of Deborah Levy’s comically menacing 2016 novel about a daughter tethered to a mysteriously ailing mother. Or, rather, it’s...

A pivotal figure in the Greek Weird Wave, Ariane Labed first gained attention with her role in Yorgos Lanthimos’ Dogtooth (2009) before delivering an award-winning Venice Film Festival performance in Athina Rachel Tsangari’s Attenberg (2010). Since then, she has collaborated...

In 2018, political journalist and writer Vanessa Schneider released Tu t’appelais Maria Schneider (My Cousin Maria Schneider), a deeply personal memoir exploring the turbulent life and career of her late cousin, actress Maria Schneider. Offering a window into the darker,...

We first became aware of Romanian-born filmmaker Teodora Ana Mihai through her 2021 film La Civil, which screened in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section and earned a specially created Prize of Courage. Blending documentary and fiction, she most recently explored...

A work-in-progress participant at the 2023 American Film Festival in Wroclaw (which turned out to be a vintage edition with Indie Donaldson’s Good One and Tyler Taormina’s Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point also being selected) Sarah Friedland was putting the...

Jeremy Saulnier‘s Rebel Ridge had a wonky production narrative with the pandemic slamming into it and causing delays but the film had its day under the sun and became a winning project for Netflix — and now the American indie...

Before our official launch, Kevin Jagernauth and I had the chance to review Audrey Diwan’s third feature film, Emmanuelle —a NEON release under their Decal label, which premiered at the 2024 San Sebastián Film Festival and comes to us on...

Recovering from his health scare back in April, Nanni Moretti is moving back into the director’s chair for Succederà questa notte (“It Will Happen Tonight”). Variety reports that production will begin sometimes this autumn with the backdrops of Spain and...

The folks at Music Box Films are releasing Sarah Friedland‘s award-winning Familiar Touch this Friday at the Film Forum in New York and then expand the following week. We had the chance to speak to the filmmaker while the film...