Feb 14, 2020 One Scene An irresolvable tension between the natural world and scripted narrative crops up throughout the work of German filmmaker Angela Schanelec, including in her latest feature, I Was at Home, But . . . Winner of the best director...

Jan 21, 2020 Melancholy and offbeat, Anna Mantzaris’s stop-motion animated short Good Intentions tells the tale of a woman involved in a hit-and-run accident that sparks a chain of strange occurrences. Using chubby-cheeked felt puppets that might suggest a more charming, whimsical type of story,...

Jan 6, 2020 1917 is now repositioned as a late frontrunner in the Oscar race.

Last Acts

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Jan 3, 2020 This week we’ve been reading about Orson Welles, Nina Menkes, Martin Scorsese, Luc Moullet, and the late Robert Frank.

Dec 23, 2019 Fear and desire lie at the heart of Peter Strickland’s cinema, whether he’s exploring those themes through the sonic, the sexual, the sartorial, or some diabolical combination of all three. With his masterful sense of film technique, the British director...

Dec 20, 2019 The following account was scratched together in August 1990, when Wim Wenders’ Until the End of the World was still taking shape in the editing room. Apart from a basic rinse of copy editing, I’m offering it up essentially as is,...

December Books

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Dec 19, 2019 Lists (of course), but also philosophical surveys, biographies, and coffee table books are featured in this month’s round.

Dec 11, 2019 One Scene “Who can prove the genuineness of our feelings?” a character asks at one point in the Cannes-award-winning sci-fi drama Little Joe, the first English-language film by Austrian director Jessica Hausner. The question is as good a summation as...

Dec 6, 2019 Coaxed out of retirement, the actor and singer is winning plaudits for his powerfully understated performance in The Irishman.

Nov 26, 2019 A smart and lively adaptation of a 150-year-old classic is warmly greeted in the first round of reviews.

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