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Known for her sharp, character-driven films that often explore the complexities of women’s lives, societal expectations, and personal rebellion, Marie Kreutzer‘s 2011 debut Die Vaterlosen and third feature in 2019’s The Ground Beneath My Feet premiered at the Berlinale. It’s...

Sit & Deliver: Lighton Assumes Positions in Titillating Debut There’s a melancholic seductiveness to Pillion, the directorial debut of Harry Lighton, based on the 2020 novella Box Hill by Adam Mars-Jones. Contemporizing the 1970s set bildungsroman to modern day, it...

In 2025 cinema embraced the POV of our winged friends. We have Macedonian filmmaker Tamara Kotevska’s Tale of Silyan that takes the human and bird rapport to higher heights and a bit lower to the surface we find a film...

A longstanding champion of emerging European cinema, the Les Arcs Film Festival’s Co-Production Village has announced eighteen feature film projects selected for its development program, including those from the likes of Lisa Brühlmann, Mar Coll and Lina Soualem. As we...

Make Me Lose My Breath: Linklater Meddles in Manicured Homage It’s unclear what the exact purpose of Nouvelle Vague is meant to serve, other than paying irreverent homage to Jean-Luc Godard and the making of his iconic debut feature, “...

Embracing Samuel Beckett’s Endgame, Fin de Partie creates a hall of mirrors exploring finitude and dependency. It presents a world of looming farewells and inevitable “endgame,” where characters in various duos are trapped between dependency and autonomy. To add to...

I participated in a virtual roundtable for the film this past weekend just before yesterday’s Gothams nominations announcement where Bugonia (read our Venice review) was nominated for Best Feature category yet omitted Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons for Outstanding Lead...

In a cinematic landscape increasingly dominated by gargantuan, risk-averse budgets, the upcoming Gotham Awards have set the stage for a compelling David vs. Goliath narrative. The gorilla in the room is Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another, a behemoth...

There is a chaotic violence at the core of Yorgos Lanthimos‘ Bugonia and so when the filmmaker re-teamed with Poor Things and Kinds of Kindness composer Jerskin Fendrix the goal might have been to strum up something to the tune...

After premiering at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival and completing its long film festival run, Sofia Bohdanowicz‘s Measures for a Funeral is now launching its domestic theatrical release this November and we’ve got the exclusive first look at the...