Lists: New York Neorealism
New York City plays itself in a few generations of filmmaking.
View ArticleTHE TRIAL’s Real Genius
Orson Welles's THE TRIAL transforms mental space into a huge, indomitable world.
View ArticleCrew: Gökhan Tiryaki
Nuri Bilge Ceylan's frequent cinematographer Gökhan Tiryaki speaks to beauty of digital as well as the contentious collaborative process.
View ArticleToronto International Film Festival: What to Watch
Toronto's selection standards are so high that any real cineaste is bound to emerge from these eleven days sated and exhausted.
View ArticleTIFF13: Wavelengths Shorts
Where one can find Toronto’s most visceral thrills and left-field surprises from some of the world’s most acclaimed filmmakers.
View ArticleSu Friedrich: ‘GUT’ Check
Experimenter and personal filmmaker Su Friedrich stirs the pot with her latest, the gentrification documentary GUT RENOVATION.
View ArticleWAKOLDA’s Study in Contrasts
Lucia Puenzo on WAKOLDA: 'I have always been Intrigued by why our and other governments opened their doors to millions of Nazis.'
View ArticleMark Cousins, in Perpetual Motion
Catching up with the road-tripping, time-traveling, soul-searching Mark Cousins as A STORY OF CHILDREN AND FILM plays Cambridge.
View Article‘I Am Original, You Are Mundane’
MY WAY TO OLYMPIA and NOBODY'S PERFECT director Niko von Glasow on 'disability,' art and his colorful film career: 'Humor is the only weapon we have.'
View ArticleScenes: HOUSE BY THE RIVER
As with all of Fritz Lang’s great films, the filmmaker does not presume to be certain whether the environment created the monster—or vice versa.
View ArticleWe All Could Have Been Better Children: A Cinematic Prayer
No regrets? A cinephile offers a few words of viewing advice to her younger self.
View ArticleBujalski Then: FUNNY HA HA and MUTUAL APPRECIATION
'It's a mystery to me how I've survived this long.'
View ArticleBujalski Now: BEESWAX and COMPUTER CHESS
'The radically different thing I would like to do next would be earning a living.'
View ArticleRevisiting ‘The Film 100′: Mike Todd, no. 53
The daring showman championed wide-screen and new sound processes.
View ArticleRewind: ROBOCOP’s José Padilha, Truth and Daring
Will a Padilha-style beating be good for American cinema?
View ArticleCurtis Harrington, Restored
A scattershot filmography doesn't tell the whole story of Curtis Harrington's thoughtful life and studied aesthetic.
View ArticleWHORES’ GLORY: Dennis Lim and Michael Glawogger, In Person at Pacific Film...
'My films are called documentaries, but they're maybe not the kind of journalistic work many people expect when they think about things like prostitution, big cities, manual labor.'
View ArticleVideo: Open Source Epic SITA SINGS THE BLUES
Sita swoons to a Jazz Age Ramayana in Nina Paley's SITA SINGS THE BLUES.
View ArticleChristian Petzold’s Deceptive Surfaces
The brilliantly no-nonsense filmmaking of Christian Petzold.
View ArticleWar Movies for People Who Don’t Like War Movies
Even the staunchest 'anti-war' movies glorify killing fields. In MARWENCOL and LA FRANCE, we find a few key exceptions to the rule.
View ArticlePetzold: Romanticizing the Past Is Wrong
A German directing star asks what we do when the idea of ‘utopia’ is lost.
View ArticleChristian Petzold’s Perilous Transitions
Christian Petzold's BARBARA builds suspense with restraint.
View ArticlePolitics as Unusual: THE AFTER PARTY Aftermath
If you see something, say something: Michael I. Schiller on surveillance and THE AFTER PARTY.
View ArticleVideo: Party-Crashing Politics
Two documentaries from political seasons past forgo cynicism and speak to the present electoral moment.
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