Beijing’s Tiananmen Square is a place made out of dates. Mao Zedong declared the founding of the People’s Republic of China on October 1 —…
In a fictional New York City, a wolf stalks through the night. This isn’t a typical wolf. She’s not prowling for a kill. This wolf…
The “YouTuber-to-filmmaker” pipeline is becoming a viable pathway to Hollywood success in 2026, particularly in the horror genre. In some notable cases, like with movie…
A 106-minute wisp of a film that unspools like the searching nature of life, Alice Winocour’s Couture keeps alive the ethos of a filmmaker who…
Summer camp is a pivotal moment for many a young person. Attendee or counselor, it’s a time away from parents and responsibilities, which allows a…
“They say that long ago, on hilly Crete, the Labyrinth contained a weaving course among blind walls and countless twisting paths, impossible to trace or…
A maxim sometimes encountered in film writing — and one espoused in the transcript that follows — is the notion that a film teaches an…
Mark Jenkin had been making films for years before his debut feature, Bait, effectively took the UK by storm. Success across the festival circuit (a…
The Super-8 camera is light like a feather. In order to employ it well, the filmmaker should be light as a feather. To watch a…
In 1968, Valerie Solanas shot Andy Warhol. A vociferous feminist and author of the “S.C.U.M. (Society for Cutting Up Men) Manifesto, Solanas felt that Warhol…
In an introduction for Bill Morrison’s new film darker, Nitrate Picture Show festival director Peter Bagrov joked that when archivists and preservationists come across reels…
The 10th Nitrate Picture Show, programmed by the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, New York, is predicated on a technology both out-of-date and incendiary: the…
After years spent acting in Mumblecore staples like Gabi on the Roof in July, experimental oddities like Hellaware, and horror anthologies like V/H/S, Sophia Takal…
In the decades during Bush’s Global War on Terror that became Obama’s, then Trump’s, then Biden’s, there was a sense of resistance that permeated among…
Several of Kalil Haddad’s films begin with a school picture. An adolescent boy poses for the camera, his hair neatly brushed, his shirt clean, a…
The mid-to-late ’90s into the early 2000s felt like a boom period for scrappy, singular, and DIY indie queer cinema. From Go Fish to Watermelon…
For over a decade, many cinephiles’ one touchpoint for the high watermark in martial arts cinema has been The Raid. It’s for good reason. Gareth…
The godfather of punk cinema, Jon Moritsugu, unleashes his vision of the contemporary art world in his seventh feature film, Numbskull Revolution (2026), which relates…
Before you lies a choice, a selection of fates. In one possibility, you are Tsarina of all the Russias, you are caparisoned in gemstones, wrapped…
Film festivals can feel like these nebulous, sometimes exploitative, labyrinthine constructs. At their best, however, they should hopefully be a place to foster creation and…
In his 2020 dark comedy Dinner in America, director Adam Carter Rehmeier captured the stifling stagnancy of life in suburban America and the simmering urge…