"Somewhere deep in the foggy Italian countryside, in an abandoned barn in the middle of the night, Michael Jackson's 'The Way...

"Regarded as a politically radical firebrand nearly as often as he’s discussed for his filmmaking, Oliver Stone is one of the monolit...

" I Am Keiko is a film caught within the dimensions of its maker’s head, composed of and consumed by the limits of that brain’s capa...

"In 1956's Lust for Life , Vincente Minnelli captured Vincent van Gogh's antisocial mania and his harum-scarum dealings with ...

"Zucker's best instincts are those that seek to throw a wrench into every single received convention we expect from genre movies,...

"Peter Greenaway, something of an aesthetic chameleon over his long, varied career, goes to further moment-to-moment extremes of plan...

"Known for scene-scanning telephoto shots that seek to dissolve the traditional limitations of the frame, Robert Altman might have se...

"[Rohmer's] unaffected style recalls what Bazin once said of Erich von Stroheim’s direction: 'Take a close look at the world,...

As subjects, roiling water surfaces and bokeh are fairly played out in lyrical/personal/diaristic 16mm Bolex filmmaking. That Timoleon Wilk...

The scant exposition bestowed by Jonathan Mostow's ruthless all-action action-thriller Breakdown comes in a brief dialogue scene betwe...

( Note: The following is the last paper I ever wrote at Emerson College, an essay for my History of Experimental and Avant-Garde seminar. ...

On the surface, the three films shown by the Balagan screening series on Monday, April 1st in Cambridge, Massachusetts to celebrate the wo...

I've written a piece for Mubi.com on the 1995 German film The Deathmaker , which dives into the extensive single-room interrogation of...

After Holy Motors , it's hard to imagine a cinematic scenario where Denis Lavant would not upstage anyone and anything around him....

The characters in Steven Soderbergh’s films are often defined by a particular moral code and the extent to which they’re willing to bend or...

If cinema is to survive as a democratic art form, one of its most crucial figures is the English filmmaker Peter Watkins, not because of an...

At the core of Todd Haynes' Safe is the idea that the human body is a cage housing fragile, valuable material, and that it's consta...

One could imagine even Luis Buñuel, the famously scathing critic of the bourgeoisie, warming up to Whit Stillman's wry, patient debut Me...

In a cinematic culture where words, whether onscreen or via narration, are commonly ghettoized as paltry emotional shorthand and "visua...

TIE , the International Experimental Cinema Exposition, is a traveling program of experimental films curated by Christopher May that seeks t...