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By Kate Hearst. It was a combination of being true to the early films that he shot but also my
By Alexandra Heller-Nicholas. Both my characters in Dear Kid and Knocking are disturbers. Even if people think there are odd,
By Elias Savada. A fine, upstanding look at the breed of feral steeds that have been an iconic symbol for the American West for centuries and, yes, it has a
A Book Review by Thomas Puhr. Like the exhibition itself, the publication is first and foremost a celebration of the singular writer-director." My first Hayao Miyazaki film – 1989’s Kiki’s Delivery Service – was like nothing
By Elias Savada. Sure, it's loud and possibly confusing for those viewers who haven't tapped into the 1965 text.... But this go round , all cylinders are firing." Ah, the
By Tony Williams. The spiritual is always a marginal element in Hu's films that deal with the eruption of violent forces attempting to dominate others before some temporary victory occurs,
By Elias Savada. Unfolding with military precision, enhanced by a steady, determined pacing…. We can be an ingenious species. When bad things happen, there are any number of special people who come
By Elias Savada. In other words, nothing new. Same slick package, different psychopathic enemy." Are you ready to put your troubles aside and hopefully not worry about the semi-masked fool
By Yun-hua Chen. The idea of the film didn’t stem from the footage, but from the apartment. My parents decided to sell it, and it was empty for several months.
By Alexandra Heller-Nicholas. 84 minutes of pure African genre mayhem, with little interest in pausing long enough for you to catch your breath....with this Senegalese western-action-horror hybrid Herbulot is here
By Christopher Sharrett. I very much recommend Haynes’s film, but, [f]or me at least, it’s a reminder of all that has disappeared….” Todd Haynes’s new film The Velvet Underground has an obvious place in the filmmaker’s oeuvre; it connects to his early film Poison (1991) and much that followed, films […]
By Elias Savada. A fine, upstanding look at the breed of feral steeds that have been an iconic symbol for the American West for centuries and, yes, it has a slow-build message. I have never been a horse person. That was my sister, an equestrian who would ride from morning […]
By Ted Knighton. Merhige pushed the distortion to its limits to transform the look of his film, exploding the emulsion’s grain and slowing the frame-rate to stagger time and motion…. Begotten is, at times, difficult to discern, and our eyes have to adjust to its scorched, lunar landscape.” In his […]
By Kate Hearst. It was a combination of being true to the early films that he shot but also my voice as a filmmaker trying to express to a modern audience how unusual and incredibly dynamic these images were.” Two-time Academy Award®-nominated filmmaker Liz Garbus is not one to shy […]
A Book Review by Thomas Puhr. Like the exhibition itself, the publication is first and foremost a celebration of the singular writer-director.” My first Hayao Miyazaki film – 1989’s Kiki’s Delivery Service – was like nothing I’d (wrongly) come to expect from animation: by turns contemplative and silly, wistful and innocent, it felt closer in spirit […]
By Elias Savada. Sure, it’s loud and possibly confusing for those viewers who haven’t tapped into the 1965 text…. But this go round [for the screen], all cylinders are firing.” Ah, the wide-screen grandeur that is Dune! All that sand makes me relish the epic 70mm moments more than a […]
By Tony Williams. The spiritual is always a marginal element in Hu’s films that deal with the eruption of violent forces attempting to dominate others before some temporary victory occurs, leaving the survivors to live and fight another day….” This is the last of Eureka’s King Hu DVDs available for […]
By Alexandra Heller-Nicholas. Both my characters in Dear Kid and Knocking are disturbers. Even if people think there are odd, they have that inner strength to interrupt when they feel something is wrong.” Frida Kempff’s Knocking follows Molly (Cecilia Milocco), a woman who has just been released from a mental […]
By N. Buket Cengiz. I always despised nostalgia and joked about overly nostalgic people. But lately our whole country is inevitably trapped in a deep nostalgia.” Love, Spells and All That (2019), the latest film of Ümit Ünal, an acclaimed director from Turkey who moved to Glasgow in 2020, has […]
By Elias Savada. Unfolding with military precision, enhanced by a steady, determined pacing…. We can be an ingenious species. When bad things happen, there are any number of special people who come up with solutions to seemingly unsolvable, life-threatening problems. The crippled Apollo 13 spacecraft is often called mankind’s greatest feat of improvised […]