“Godzilla Minus One” was already one of the best Godzilla movies, for the way it used the kaiju movie template to tell a story that was essentially a sweeping melodrama about surviving wars and other catastrophes. The announcement that it was going to be released in a black-and-white version was tantalizing, and the result is […]
DOC NYC, the world’s largest documentary film festival, is making its return to NYC from November 13 through December 1 (in-person and online) for its 15th edition. It will screen more than 200 films, 110 of which are feature-length. Many […]
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This fall, Walter Salles finally returned with his first feature in 12 twelve years, the moving political/family drama I’m Still Here. Led by a powerhouse performance by Fernanda Torres alongside Selton Mello and Fernanda Montenegro, Sony Classics will give Brazil’s Oscar entry a qualifying run beginning next week in LA before opening on January 17. […]
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Agnes of God: Franz & Fiala’s Bleak Portrait of Women & Madness
“A Witch is born out of the true hungers of her time,” wrote Ray Bradbury in one of his stories from Long After Midnight (1976), as succinct a phrase as any to convey the cultural facets which historically plagued troubled or troubling women, almost always to forge their doom. The Devil’s Bath, the third feature from Austrian directing duo Veronica Franz and Severin Fiala, is not a film about witches, per se. However, their first period piece, set in 1750 Upper Austria, is most assuredly a horror story, taken from historical court records.… Read the rest
Henri-Georges Clouzot’s The Wages of Fear remains a standard-bearer 71 years after the fact. Its 4K restoration from Hiventy thus comes as no surprise, and––just on the basis of how good a compressed YouTube upload looks––is only too welcome. Ahead of said restoration’s Film Forum debut on November 27, Janus Films have debuted a new […]
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Dream Team’s absurdist brand flirts with art-for-art’s-sake disengagement.
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The holidays are upon us, so whether you’re looking for film-related gifts or simply want to get for yourself some of the finest this year had to offer, we have a gift guide for you. Including must-have books on filmmaking, the best from the Criterion Collection and other home-video lines, subscriptions, magazines, music, and more, […]
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Imagine it’s the 90s, in the early days of wide home computer use, with dial-up models, compact discs as the main mode of music listening, and you’ve fallen asleep in front of your television. You wake up in a dark hour and images of beaches and modern dance and a strange pair of investigators sitting on a beach trying to figure out why scientists are dying mysteriously. Perhaps you think you’re still asleep, watching this strange, visually intriguing and sometimes not quite coherent story, but you can’t help but be drawn in. You might be watching Dream Team, the latest lo-fi, lo-budget speculative experimental work by American filmmakers Lev Kalman and Whitney Horn. Using 16mm film, the film is a strangely comic (not dark exactly,…
Directed with a sense of tranquil serenity and grounded maturity one might be accustomed to finding in the work of a seasoned director, Allen Sunshine is, quite remarkably, the debut feature of 25-year-old Harley Chamandy. The Montreal-born, New York-based filmmaker received the 2024 Werner Herzog Film Prize for his feature following its Munich Film Festival […]
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An interview with the star-director on grief and his funny, heartfelt sophomore effort.