Review: Kleber Mendonça Filho’s ‘Aquarius’
“In ‘Aquarius,’ memories — of places, moments, music and lovers — balance imminent struggles to live well.”
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Neaux Reel Idea: The Southern Sage
Neaux Reel Idea is a Vague Visages column by Bill Arceneaux, in which he explores the cinema of his native New Orleans.
Of Love and Other Demons: ‘Someone’s Watching Me!’ (John Carpenter, 1978)
“Carpenter doesn’t frame the film as being about an outlier male abuser, but a culture that has little respect for a woman’s personal space.”
Why Criticism: Horror’s Fight for Respect
A Column on Film Criticism by Justine A. Smith
CIFF Review: Terence Davies’ ‘A Quiet Passion’
“‘A Quiet Passion’ is at its best when its silence is broken by images, not words.”
NYFF Review: Mia Hansen-Løve’s ‘Things to Come’
“There is no right way to negotiate these expectations, and no way to outrun them: they simply exist as a part of life.”
Review: Ang Lee’s ‘Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk’
“Ultimately, Ang Lee delivers a smart war film that offers a great deal of empathy to its social actors while still remaining critical of imperialist impulses in American culture.”
CIFF Review: Andrzej Wajda’s ‘Afterimage’
“This portrait of an aging artist engages with and refuses the idea that artistic and social isolation is anything but selfish.”
‘Different from the Others’: The Oldest Gay Movie in Restored 35mm
“History, in the form of motion picture entertainment, continues to surprise.”
Krzysztof Kieślowski’s ‘Dekalog’: Putting Faith in the Everyday
Jeremy Carr on Krzysztof Kieślowski’s ‘Dekalog’
