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This Film Isn’t Real: Maja Milos’ Tiger Award-winning debut, Clip
On a Saturday afternoon at AFI Fest last November, I walked into a 4:15 PM screening...
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Blackmailing Prostitutes: Antonio Campos explores the disturbing mind of Simon Killer
Judging by his two features—2008’s unsettling Afterschool (about a teenager who accidentally films the deaths of...
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Narcotic Harmony: An American provocateur wages a war against the senses with Spring Breakers
I was never really a fan of Harmony Korine’s work. I saw Kids (directed by Larry...
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The Silent Revolution: In the footsteps of The Artist, Pablo Berger’s Blancanieves Impels the Silent Film Renaissance
Spanish writer-director Pablo Berger made a name for himself with his offbeat 2003 debut feature, Torremolinos...
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Sundance for $60,000: Daniel Hoesl’s Soldate Jeannette is a Masterclass in Low-Budget Filmmaking (Video)
Anyone familiar with the films of Mike Leigh knows that, in the right hands, the seed...
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Things I’ve Learned: Harmony Korine
As Josh Ralske writes in his forthcoming MovieMaker interview… “I was never really a fan of...
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East of Eden: Megan Griffiths’ Harrowing Tale of Sex-trafficking and Survival
Eden, Megan Griffiths’ stunning new film, exists within the perverted—and unsettlingly pervasive—world of human sex trafficking....
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Fake Independence and Reel Truth, Pt. 4: Approaching a film set with an open mind
Read Part 1 Read Part 2 Read Part 3 My favorite metaphor for thinking about artists...
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Love and the Bomb: Sally Potter Returns to 1960s London with Ginger & Rosa
From Orlando, her audacious breakthrough film (based on a Virginia Woolf novel many considered unadaptable) to...
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Fake Independence and Reel Truth, Pt. 3: Plastic emotions and lite art
Read Part 1 Read Part 2 Read Part 4 Surely I’m not the only person in...
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