"The ocean has provided fertile territory for visual experimentation in recent years in a number of non-narrative art-house films, fr...

"Shot on desaturated Super 16 mm film in a Danish limestone quarry, Winter Brothers is one of the more aesthetically idiosyncratic d...

"After scrupulously analyzing the rippling effects of a man’s moment of human weakness in Force Majeure , Ruben Östlund has adopted a...

"'War is war. Life is life. You can’t lump them together,' says a burly construction worker early on in Valeska Grisebach’s W...

"Like In the Shadow of Women , Lover for a Day is shot in widescreen black and white by Renato Berta, staged in a prosaic suite of b...

"If conventional narrative cinema grammar has trained us to understand scenes taking place prior to the broadcasting of a film’s titl...

"This principle of elimination—why provide surplus aural and visual stimuli when two or three pieces of information will do?—informs ...

I interviewed writer/director/critic Gabe Klinger at the Zurich Film Festival for Filmmaker Magazine , in which we discussed his new film ...

"It's generally agreed upon that one should allow themselves a few hours of decompression and acclimation when first landing in a...

"Matías Piñeiro's Hermia & Helena offers an implicit rebuke to the received notion that the American debuts of eccentric int...

"The first four images of Dark Night , Tim Sutton's contemplation of civilian gun violence in America, have a fragmentary precisi...

"Joel Potrykus's last film, Buzzard , placed its loafer protagonist in a crushingly dull middle-American milieu until he went ber...

"For those still reeling from seasickness induced by Leviathan , Art of the Real has the tonic. Dead Slow Ahead , another experimenta...

The New York Film Festival is back in business for its 52nd year, and while I sadly am not able to attend this time, I was happy to be abl...

Now that my formal coverage of the 51st New York Film Festival has concluded (see my dispatches here , here , and here , and also take a li...

( Disclaimer: These notes were scribbled in between screenings while waiting in line for other films. Only minor editing, for grammatical an...

( Disclaimer: These notes were scribbled in between screenings while waiting in line for other films. Only minor editing, for grammatical an...

Below is a complete ranking of the films I saw at the 65th Cannes Film Festival. Enjoy! 1. Holy Motors (Carax, France, In Competition) ...

(I attended the Cannes Film Festival for the first time this year, resulting in my low output on this blog for the past two weeks. I will so...