Saying Less with More: Diminishing Returns in The History of Sound
The History of Sound follows the life of Lionel (Paul Mescal), a Kentucky-native in pre-WWI America studying vocal performance at…
The History of Sound follows the life of Lionel (Paul Mescal), a Kentucky-native in pre-WWI America studying vocal performance at…
Die My Love opens still and contained. A static shot enveloped within the walls of a rural home drenched with…
Premiering in the ACID sidebar of this year’s Cannes was Lucio Castro’s Drunken Noodles, a luscious, micro-scale and micro-budget exploration…
It is always a treat to watch a new film from writer-director Paul Schrader, one of America’s foundational thinkers of film form and…
“What always draws me to a film idea is location, mood, and light,” says Carson Lund. In his directorial debut Eephus it’s a…
In the manner of so many of our most influential creatives and thinkers, the person of Jim Henson—creator of the Muppets, voice of…
When it comes to subject matters like the Holocaust, one can hardly afford to be diplomatic.
When Carolie Fargeat’s The Substance premiered at this year’s Festival de Cannes, the response was electric. It seemed immediately that the festival had…
Gilda and The Shrouds perform similar dances that flit between paranoid jealousy and nihilistic dissociation.
Men, women, and a camera. You might even add a cat in there just to make it a little fun.
It may be tempting to denounce film festivals such as Cannes as displays of self-aggrandizement for the ultra-wealthy. Yet, standing in a packed…
Before he died, Akira Kurosawa predicted Takeshi Kitano’s long-gestating project Kubi, when made, can be a masterpiece on par with his own epic…
Talia Ryder being a girlboss for 104 straight minutes.
Queen provocateur Catherine Breillat returns to narrative filmmaking and Cannes Competition after a decade-long absence with Last Summer. 75 and hemiplegic, Breillat is…
I hate the saying “style over substance” because it implies a dichotomy between those two things, when style itself can be substance. But…
The History of Sound follows the life of Lionel (Paul Mescal), a Kentucky-native in pre-WWI America studying vocal performance at a conservatory. When…
Die My Love opens still and contained. A static shot enveloped within the walls of a rural home drenched with flowers and nostalgic…
Premiering in the ACID sidebar of this year’s Cannes was Lucio Castro’s Drunken Noodles, a luscious, micro-scale and micro-budget exploration of queer intimacy….
Once I came down from the adrenaline of the first few days of Cannes, I found myself wandering around the Palais (the main…
There are few things that embody the spirit of Cannes more precisely than the experience of watching a film in which the characters…
Julia Ducournau’s Alpha is a film that I’ve found really hard to talk about. At Cannes, everyone talks about what movies they’ve loved,…