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Rep Diary: Black Audio Film Collective
The trailblazing Black Audio Film Collective (BAFC) formed at Portsmouth Polytechnic in 1982 before graduating and moving to a converted warehouse space in East London’s Hackney. Comprised of seven...
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Review: The Island of St. Matthews
The consistency of Kevin Jerome Everson’s vast oeuvre—which spans short films, videos, and other media (sculpture, photography, installation)—resonates with the everyday, proletarian rituals he often...
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Films of the Week: A Look at Rendez-Vous
Rendez-Vous with French Cinema runs March 6 - 16. Scheduling and ticket information are available here. Over the next few years, keep an eye on Solène Rigot. Actually, I happened to think of her but I...
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Interview: Axelle Ropert
Axelle Ropert is something of an outlier in the world of French cinema. Originally known as a fierce critic associated with La Lettre du Cinéma—the short-lived Paris film journal that forged its own...
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Interview: Rebecca Zlotowski
Rebecca Zlotowski’s Grand Central pairs two of France’s leading young stars, Léa Seydoux and Tahar Rahim, as illicit lovers working in a nuclear power station. Fulfilling the promise of Belle épine...
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Kaiju Shakedown: Jeff Lau
This weekend, Stephen Chow’s blockbuster comedy, Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons, hits American screens. Last summer, Wong Kar Wai’s moody martial-arts movie, The Grandmaster, got a U.S....
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Interview: Justine Triet
Familial drama lands smack dab in the middle of a political storm in Justine Triet’s debut feature, Age of Panic, screening in Rendez-Vous with French Cinema. The French title, La Bataille de...
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Interview: Serge Bozon
Starring Isabelle Huppert and Sandrine Kiberlain as investigating judges looking into the murder of a police informer in a predominantly Algerian-French suburb of Lille, Serge Bozon’s Tip Top may be...
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Futures & Pasts: Barabbas
At the moment of this writing Son of God is earning decent coin in multiplexes, despite being a rehash of footage from a History Channel miniseries, and the gathering clouds suggest a deluge of kitsch...
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Film of the Week: The Grand Budapest Hotel
If you were ever irritated by Wes Anderson’s tendency to make the world resemble a doll’s house, The Grand Budapest Hotel will really get under your skin. Last month at the Berlin Film Festival, the...
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News Digest 3/12/14
Item of the day: Elaine May and husband Stanley Donen have co-written a comedy about filmmaking to be produced by Mike Nichols. A private reading took place recently featuring Christopher Walken,...
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Interview: Bertrand Tavernier
Bertrand Tavernier is one of a small number of working filmmakers capable of juggling a prolific career behind the camera (he has been making films steadily for the past 40 years) with an equally...
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Rep Diary: Motion(less) Pictures
The widespread adoption of digital projection systems officially ushered in an age that redefines the physical basis of “motion pictures.” The visual phenomenon described by the term puts the emphasis...
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Kaiju Shakedown: The Revolution Gets Televised
C.Y. Leung, Hong Kong's new Chief Executive, has turned out to be the most unifying politician in Hong Kong history, inspiring massive waves of hatred across the population. From a political point of...
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Reviews: Guilty of Romance & Himizu
After a long delay, Guilty of Romance and Himizu are finally having their debut theatrical runs in the U.S. The pair signal the end of a self-described “middle period” of Sono’s career, and mark a...
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Interview: Michael Obert and Alex Tondowski
A winner of the top prize at this year’s IDFA, Song of the Forest centers on an ideal documentary subject: Louis Sarno, an eloquent and passionate man who has gone to extremes for his beliefs. Drawn...
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Kaiju Shakedown: Aachi & Ssipak
In a world where energy has run dry, in a country where the government robs its citizens of hope with drugs and pornography, in a land where freedom is a four letter word, there is one hero who knows...
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In Memoriam: Věra Chytilová (1929-2014)
In an era of censorship and austerity during the communist occupation of Czechoslovakia after WWII, its New Wave emerged as a vehicle for political rebellion and aesthetic expression that would make...
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Interview: Ana Lily Amirpour
A chador-clad vampire on a skateboard, the heroine of Ana Lily Amirpour’s A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night is as quietly defiant as the film’s title. Preying primarily on menacing misogynists, our...
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Film of the Week: The Missing Picture
“There are many things that men should not see or know,” goes the voiceover at the end of Rithy Panh’s The Missing Picture. “Should he see them, he would be better off dying. But should any of us see...
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