Clik here to view.
Interview: Nathaniel Dorsky
Song Raised in New York on a steady diet of Westerns and Disney True-Life Adventures, Nathaniel Dorsky started shooting 8mm movies at the age of eleven. In 1963, when he had just turned 20, he made...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Festivals: Camden International Film Festival
Pablo's Winter On a gorgeous Saturday afternoon in late September, I was second-guessing my choice to remain in the faintly mildewed Bay View Cinema in Camden, Maine while a delicious, mid-60s breeze...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Film of the Week: Camille Claudel 1915
Among highly regarded auteurs, France’s Bruno Dumont may command the least affection. It’s not because his films are severe; there are other filmmakers who cultivate extreme austerity yet invite...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Review: Kill Your Darlings
An energetic debut feature from director John Krokidas, Kill Your Darlings is a hybrid biopic and crime drama based on actual events from the life of Beat poet Allen Ginsberg (Daniel Radcliffe). The...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Review: Carrie
Thirty-seven years on, Brian De Palma’s Carrie—an adaption of Stephen King’s breakout 1974 debut novel—has long been a bona fide classic, capable of inspiring its own Halloween costumes, sitcom...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Clickbait: The Internet in Hollywood Films
WarGames Since the days of Napster, Hollywood films have been readily available online. Conversely, the Internet has been seeping into Hollywood films since the Eighties. Twin teenage...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Rep Diary: I Am Suzanne!
In 1932 Lilian Harvey was a superstar in Europe. Fox lured her to Hollywood with the hope of landing another Pola Negri or Greta Garbo. Harvey had made her name in a series of German operettas...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Review: The Counselor
It sounds like an intriguing proposition: novelist Cormac McCarthy (author of No Country for Old Men and The Road) pens an original screenplay about an upstanding lawyer who gets caught up in the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Film of the Week: Bastards
Claire Denis’s films tend to be atmospheric, and Bastards is no exception. In its opening, a torrential rain cascades at night under yellow lighting, like a Biblical plague of piss visited on the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Critical Dialogue: Blue Is the Warmest Color
Forget, if you can, the post-Cannes hullaballoo surrounding the film’s hotly debated gender politics. Forget the stories of Abdellatif Kechiche’s grueling working methods, the highly public feud...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Rep Diary: Sidewalk Stories
In an interview at the 2011 New York Film Festival, Michel Hazanavicius cited a largely forgotten film as a key inspiration for his Oscar-winning silent movie The Artist. Shot in black and white and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Film of the Week: Le Week-End
I honestly can't remember seeing a more off-putting trailer than the one for Le Week-End. It features Jim Broadbent and Lindsay Duncan flitting around the streets of Paris, lashings of breezy...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Review: Ender’s Game
Long before Stephenie Meyer’s fundamentally conservative young-adult fantasy franchise, there existed fellow Mormon Orson Scott Card’s Ender saga. A short story that has evolved into a series of 16...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Interview: Paolo Sorrentino
Pangs of nostalgia turn into a full-blown existential crisis in Paolo Sorrentino’s latest film, The Great Beauty. Toni Servillo plays Jep Gambardella, a Roman journalist whose life of drinking,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Off the Blacklist: The Films of Jan Němec
Jan Němec’s first three features—made in a creative flurry between 1964 and 1967—are pared-down, taut, fatless movies. Taken together, they can be seen as a central source text for the Czech New Wave,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Review: Go For Sisters
When thrust under the crushing wheels of fate, sometimes you have to stake out a position on both sides of the law to save yourself and those you love. At least that’s how things are in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Film of the Week: How I Live Now
The first glimmer I ever had of what you might call Apocalyptic British Ruralism can be summed up in one word: Devizes. This is a market town in South West England, and I remember the word jumping out...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Festivals: Wavelengths at Toronto
A couple of years ago, fears arose that the Toronto International Film Festival might do something to Wavelengths, the respected and important section dedicated to experimental and nonnarrative...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Review: Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: Enter Here
Out on the open ground not far from the buildings an abandoned newspaper has lain for months, full of events. It grows old through nights and days in rain and sun, on the way to becoming a plant, a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Film of the Week: The Great Beauty
I can’t remember when a film last gave me such a surge of pure pleasure—no, outright euphoria—as The Great Beauty. I’ve always been partial to the baroque, crazily exuberant imagination of Italian...
View Article