Horror’s the Future: FEUD ‘The Other Woman’ (Recap)
“‘Feud’ seems to be driven as much by male insecurity and fear of failure as it does anything to do with the women.”
Book Review: Jeff Gold’s ‘Total Chaos: The Story of The Stooges / As Told by Iggy Pop‘
“‘Total Chaos’ is that rare thing: a good idea whose final product far eclipses its original premise.”
Technological Tease: Virtual Reality
“I foresee that VR will eventually become a key asset of filmmaking, putting itself right alongside sound, color, digital and CGI as an essential staple of the industry.”
Vague Visages Is FilmStruck: François Truffaut’s ‘Shoot the Piano Player’
“Truffaut and Coutard punctuate ‘Shoot the Piano Player’ with a vibrant rendering of its wintry Parisian setting, where the city is an ever-present visual marker…”
Album Review: Temples ‘Volcano’
“‘Volcano’ is overflowing with lyrics that are evocative and often alluringly nonsensical.”
Revisiting the Legacy and Style of the Gravity-Defying Nicholas Brothers
“At a moment that calls for more inclusivity on all levels, the fact that we still have access to the Nicholas Brothers’ work is important.”
True/False 2017 Review: Fan Jian’s ‘Still Tomorrow’
“No matter which storyline is in play, the best thing about ‘Still Tomorrow’ is its subject.”
Aspics and Cocktails: FEUD ‘Pilot’ (Recap)
“What could be a simple dramatization of events is given the potential to deviate from reality; to acknowledge that truth through gossip is rarely what it seems to be.”
Review: Onur Tukel’s ‘Catfight’
“What ‘Catfight’ lacks in sanity, it makes up for in the sheer exuberance of Sandra Oh and Anne Heche.”
True/False 2017 Review: Yance Ford’s ‘Strong Island’
“‘Strong Island’ is a vulnerable, affecting documentary that illustrates what systemic racism looks like on a personal level.”
True/False 2017 Review: Kitty Green’s ‘Casting JonBenet’
“The editing is where the story of Casting JonBenet is truly built.”
True/False 2017 Review: Theo Anthony’s ‘Rat Film’
“‘Rat Film’ doesn’t spell out its conclusions, instead allowing the viewer to come to their own upon seeing the images and stories it presents.”
Éric Rohmer’s Battle of the Sexes
“Rohmer cares more about posing questions than providing the comfort of a conclusion.”
Vague Visages Is FilmStruck: Marshall Shaffer’s #FilmStruckFebruary
Marshall Shaffer Reflects on a Full Month of FilmStruck
The Aesthetic and Formal Challenges of Jean-Luc Godard’s ‘Contempt’
“‘Contempt’ is a daunting and formally labyrinthine work, calling its own fallibility to question even as it submits completely to the romance of cinema.”
The Wonder of Cinema and Living in ‘Voyage of Time: Life’s Journey’
“As a ‘purely experimental film,’ ‘Voyage of Time’ is ultimately an extreme, sensory experience.”
Behind the Curtain in ‘David Lynch – The Art Life’
“If ever a soul was captured on camera, this is it.”
‘The Handmaiden’: A Sensuous, Sumptuous Tale of Secrecy, Sex and Subversion
“Park demonstrates how the complicated relationship between role-play, desire, secrecy, power and revenge prove ripe for darkly comic (and perverse) fodder.”
Coffee and Cinephilia: A Conversation with Richard Peña
Alejandra Rosenberg Interviews Richard Peña
Album Review: Ryan Adams ‘Prisoner’
“The songs on ‘Prisoner’ seem shackled to the chains of (unrequited) love.”