LESSONS IN DARKNESS: An Interview with Cinematographer Frederick Elmes By Nicolas Rapold It’s astonishing that the first feature Frederick Elmes shot as director of photography is Eraserh...
First Look 2024 KEEP-A-GOIN’ By Mark Asch Gasoline Rainbow Bill and Turner Ross, U.S., MUBI “America is a young country,” as the saying goes, and maybe that accounts for the appe...
THE MAN, THE MYTH by Conor Williams A Prince Dir. Pierre Creton, France, Strand Releasing Young, scruffy Pierre-Joseph has taken an interest in horticulture. “I was steered toward an a...
SOMEDAY YOU WILL ACHE LIKE I ACHE: An Interview with Jane Schoenbrun By Juan Barquin It’s been nearly a decade since I met Jane Schoenbrun. They’d just released the free experimental om...
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STIR IT UP By Nicholas Russell Pressure Horace Ové, 1976, U.K., Janus Films Pressure begins with an English breakfast fried beneath the hummed tune of “Amazing Grace.” The cook, Bop...
Screen Play BLACK BOX BOOB TUBE Max Carpenter on the Cinematic Hinterlands of the American Game Show “The things that rendezvous here do not belong to reality. They are copies and distor...
INTO THE WOODS By Imogen Sara Smith Evil Does Not Exist Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Japan, Sideshow/Janus Films In Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Evil Does Not Exist, the forest is both a 21st-century thr...
At the Museum PASSING THROUGH: DISCOVERING HIROSHI SHIMIZU By Imogen Sara Smith Museum of the Moving Image presents Hiroshi Shimizu Part I: The Shochiku Years May 4–19, 2024. The tra...
Reverse Shot Does It Again STORIES WE TELL Chris Wisniewski on The Sopranos Did The Sopranos change everything, or did everything change around The Sopranos? It’s probably a bit of both....
Reverse Shot Does It Again WHERE NOW ARE THE DREAMS OF YOUTH? Ryan Swen Revisits Nocturama In a perverse twist of thinking borne from cinema’s ability to insinuate itself into the mind, ...
Festival Dispatch GOING THE DISTANCE Selections from True/False Film Fest 2024 by Tiffany Joy Butler The most striking films I saw while attending the 21st edition of True/False Film Fest...
This Must Be the Place THIS MUST BE THE PLACE by Kelli Weston Column 2: Commandment Keeper (Beaufort, South Carolina; Commandment Keeper Seventh Day Church of God) Any effort to trace a...
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WHAT ARE WE FIGHTING FOR? by Gavin Smith Civil War Dir. Alex Garland, U.S./U.K., A24 The 15-year-old me would have gotten a big kick out of Civil War—but for better or for worse he’s...
TALES FROM THE CRYPTID By Hazem Fahmy Sasquatch Sunset Dir. Nathan and David Zellner, U.S., Bleecker Street The Zellner brothers are obsessed with revisiting myths. Their most popular fi...
At the Museum IN THE HEART OF THE SEA Greg Cwik on The Abyss: Special Edition The Abyss: Special Edition screens at Museum of the Moving Image April 14 & 18, 2024 . Consider the jellyfi...
BODY TALK: The People’s Joker By Caden Mark Gardner and Willow Catelyn Maclay Over the last six years, Body Talk has been a series of published correspondences between trans critics Caden...
PAST IS PRESENT An Interview with Bertrand Bonello about The Beast By Leonardo Goi Bertrand Bonello’s first sci-fi foray, The Beast imagines a near-future that’s neither a post-apocalyp...
A LITTLE BIT FAIRY TALE: An Interview with Robin Campillo By Frank Falisi “It’s a little . . . David Lynch,” Robin Campillo says, gesturing to the green room at the Elinor Bunin Monro...
Text of Light TEXT OF LIGHT NO. 3 STAYING VERTICAL by Jordan Cronk Last month I visited the Academy Museum’s exhibition “Shifting Perspectives: Celebrating Vertical Cinema,” for w...
IN THE EARTH By Adam Nayman La Chimera Dir. Alice Rohrwacher, Italy/France/Switzerland, NEON There is nothing new under the sun in the films of Alice Rohrwacher, which pay their respect...