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1. Twin Peaks: The Return (David Lynch) 2. Western (Valeska Grisebach) 3. Zama (Lucrecia Martel) 4. On the Beach at Night Alone (Hong Sangsoo) 5....
By Erika Balsom. The Normandy village of Pirou-Plage almost became a holiday destination. In 1990, property developer Pier Invest launched a plan...
By Lydia Ogwang. It’s an epidemic: the populist appeal of genre cinema is undeniable, even here at home. In a bit of a surprise, Robin Aubert’s...
*Paul Schrader: Deliberate Boredom in the Church of Cinema. By Alex Ross Perry. Community/Theatre: A Conversation with Stephen Cone. By Blake...
By Chuck Stephens. How many names can you call Bruce Conner? Surrealist, beat, prankster, poet, illustrator, assemblagist, filmmaker, punk. Spray-...
By Manuela Lazic. Early on in The Work, a documentary chronicling intense group therapy techniques practiced inside Folsom State Prison outside of...
By Jonathan Rosenbaum. Let me start by paraphrasing and slightly expanding a comment of mine appended to my 2017 ten-best list for DVD Beaver. A...
By Robert Koehler. In Park City this January, all of those attending the Sundance Film Festival were told in no uncertain terms on a daily, if not...
By Kate Rennebohm. Televisual and serialized storytelling has long been haunted by a Scheherazadean sense of the relation between storytelling and...
Sightsurf and Brainwave: Blake Williams’ PROTOTYPE by Michael Sicinski In the Shadow of the Magic Kingdom: Sean Baker on The Florida Project by...
By Michael Sicinski Blake Williams is a multi-dimensional character. A writer whose work has frequently graced the pages of this magazine, he is...
By Christoph Huber “The .22 bullet tore a tiny hole into the canvas. The detonation was marginally louder than the crack of a whip. In the valley...
By Samuel La France “The person we love we dream only of eating. That is, we slide down that razor’s edge of ambivalence.”—Hélène Cixous,...
By Mark Peranson It’s true that the bulk of the films that are covered in any particular issue of this magazine first show publically at film...
By Adam Nayman. Accepting the Golden Lion at Venice for The Shape of Water, Guillermo del Toro magnanimously offered this piece of advice to young...
By Chuck Stephens. “Oh, slow-eyed spectator, this machine is grinding you out of existence.”—Stan Brakhage Stan Brakhage’s Metaphors on...
By Jonathan Rosenbaum. Circa 1978, while I was living in a San Diego suburb and teaching a film course, I wrote a letter to Dr. Seuss (Ted Geisel),...
By Jay Kuehner. The titular nape of the neck invoked in the word cocote is both a marked corporeal designation and an intimation of something bad...
By Sean Rogers. “I am not trying to make some new meaning from these films; I am striving to bring out the meanings that are there but obscured by...
By Lawrence Garcia. That Guy Maddin’s feature-length follow-up to his most monumental work to date—the staggering mise en abyme of The Forbidden...
By Blake Williams. “It’s a cry echoed by a thousand sentinels An order relayed by a thousand heralds A beacon flaring up a thousand citadels A...