‘A Hidden Life’ Shows Terrence Malick at His Most Inquisitive and Incisive
“The best religious filmmakers don’t hold the hand of the non-religious viewer, nor do they proselytise — they simply trust that their vision will resonate.”
Modern Malick
“In Malick’s effort to capture the alienation that accompanies modernity, in his contemporary-set films, he ultimately achieves a similar alienation cinematically.”
TIFF 2018: One Small Step – A Review of Damien Chazelle’s ‘First Man’
“What ‘First Man’ might lack in emotionality, Chazelle more than compensates for in spectacle.”
Vague Visages Is FilmStruck: Marshall Shaffer on Ingmar Bergman’s ‘Silence of God’ Trilogy
“I’m convinced that understanding the progression is a crucial bridge in any attempt to understand how the two distinct portions of Bergman’s filmography interact.”
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.”
Vague Visages Is FilmStruck: Jeremy Carr on Stanley Kubrick’s ‘Fear and Desire’
Vague Visages Is FilmStruck: A Column Devoted to the Streaming Platform FilmStruck
‘Indignation’ Has a Palpable Humanity to Its Fury
“Where Indignation deviates a little from its otherwise classical trappings is in its structure.”
Terrence Malick’s ‘Badlands’ Is a Great American Love Story
“Some movies are so good that when they’re over, you almost expect the whole film industry to shut down.”
Some Great Directorial Debuts You May Have Missed in 2015
Here’s Josh Slater-Williams on four underrated gems of the past year.
Review: David Gordon Green’s ‘Manglehorn’
“Seldom more than a vehicle for Pacino to exercise his considerable (and still active) talents, Manglehorn is a string of engaging and breathtaking images that, when strung together, become a subdued meandering plot devoid of any real meaning.”