Blunt and poetic has always been Errol Morris’ strongest suit, and American Dharma is no exception. This time, the man before Morris is Steve Bannon, the architect behind Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, and, at one time, the most hated and feared … Continue reading AMERICAN DHARMA
Released in 1989, New York Stories is an omnibus film, three shorts stitched together by a city. And though two of the directors’ oeuvres are inseparable from the city streets, tenements, and high rises that dot the New York skyline, it is … Continue reading NEW YORK STORIES
New Zealand filmmaker Taiki Waititi really likes working with kids. Yes, there’s something amusing about a kid trying to act years beyond their age—or, at least, speak like it—and there’s something revealing about a child playacting in an adult world … Continue reading HUNT FOR THE WILDERPEOPLE
Jojo (Roman Griffin Davis) is a good little Nazi. Jojo’s only 10 years old, but his brown shirt is spiffy, his red arm badge is on straight, his arm is at the proper height for a good, strong heil—no flimsy … Continue reading JOJO RABBIT
Back for number 42, the Denver Film Festival (DFF) returns Oct. 30 through Nov. 10, under a dark cloud. This will be the first DFF in over 20 years without Artistic Director Brit Withey at the helm. On March 31, … Continue reading The Show Must Go On: Dispatches from the 42nd Denver Film Festival
Buster Keaton was destined for the silver screen before moving pictures were even born. As the story goes, an 18-month-old (or was that six-month-old?) Keaton took a tumble down a flight of stairs and didn’t make a sound. “That’s some … Continue reading OUR HOSPITALITY
They say the future of film is female. It is. But so is the past. Maybe that’s not evident upon first glance—certainly not if you page through the standard history books—because critics, historians, and filmmakers, mostly male, like to focus … Continue reading Ida Lupino: Filmmaker Collection
Words, for better or worse, shape our perception of the world. Some, like death and decay, carry negative connotations. Hearing them conjures images of mortality, finality, even obsolescence. Others, like birth and growth, invoke positivity: Tiny baby hands grasping adult … Continue reading THE BIGGEST LITTLE FARM
His name might not be as synonymous with the development of cinematic grammar as Alice Guy-Blaché, Orson Welles, or Jean-Luc Godard, but experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage’s ripples are still felt in contemporary cinema. From The Act of Seeing With One’s … Continue reading BRAKHAGE
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