Neo Sora‘s Happyend and Lilith Kraxner and Milena Czernovsky‘s bluish present visions of urban quiet ...

This article appeared in the November 27, 2024 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring ...

Access points: the first-ever documentary showcase held within a U.S. prison included a slate of competing films judged by an ...

Richard, his most determinedly ordinary hero, has no coincidental encounters with greatness; instead, history is relegated to ...

Hong Sangsoo's A Traveler's Needs explores how communication across languages can be both obfuscating and revelatory ...

I had the last of my six colposcopy surgeries—a procedure that cuts out cancerous cells from a cervix—in December 2020. To commemorate the one-year anniversary in 2021, I did my makeup, put on a ...

Early in Rite of Spring (1962), Manoel de Oliveira frames a procession of peasants dressed as Roman soldiers through the windshield of a Chevrolet, the rolling hills of Portugal’s rural Trás-os-Montes ...

This article appeared in the November 8, 2024 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the Letter here. Guns (Robert ...

An extension of Green’s interest in frustrated protagonists searching for meaning, The Son of Joseph centers upon Vincent (Victor Ezenfis), an angry and conflicted teenager who yearns to discover his ...