“I am Thinking of Ending Things”: Film Review
Darkly compelling and brilliantly unreliable, Philip Kaufman’s “I am Thinking of Ending Things” is an imploded kaleidoscope filled with the broken shards of a life.
“The Killing of a Sacred Deer”: Film Review
Colin Farrell becomes a troublingly perfect Agamemnon in this new film by Yorgos Lanthimos.
“Coup 53”: Film Review
A chirpy and entertaining film about a dark story with terrible consequences, “Coup 53” is charmingly didactic yet raises the question: what is documentary film for?
“Disobedience”: Film Review
A death stirs up the unresolved past in a grey North London suburb. Photographer Ronit flies home from New York for her father’s funeral to find herself erased from his life.
“Parasite”: Film Review
The class struggle is alive and well, it seems, and depicted with brilliant and explosively exuberant joie de vivre in director Bong Joon Ho’s black comedy.
“Parasite” B&W Edition: Film Review
While Bong Joon Ho’s spectacularly successful Parasite was collecting awards in Cannes and at the Oscars, its black & white twin was quietly waiting in the vaults – or maybe in the basement of a beautiful but foreboding modernist villa.
“The Truth”: Film Review
A palimpsestic chamber piece in a minor key, Kore-eda’s “The Truth” stars Catherine Deneuve and Juliette Binoche in a film that is as French as they come – almost.
“9 Fingers” (9 doigts): Film Review
Magloire (Paul Hamy) is a man on a journey to nowhere, or more accurately, Nowhereland.
“Thelma”: an Interview with Joachim Trier and Eili Harboe
Joachim Trier’s film “Thelma”, made with his long-term collaborators, writer Eskil Vogt, cinematographer Jakob Ihre and composer Ola Fløttum, marks a new development in the director’s career.
“Las Herederas (The Heiresses)”: Interview with Marcelo Martinessi
A long relationship plays out in a world of light and dark among the upper classes of Paraguay. Director/writer Marcelo Martinessi talks about his Berlinale prize-winning film.
“Imitation Girl”: Film Review
In the empty, rock-strewn landscape of the New Mexico desert, a meteorite pierces through the cloudy sky.
“Call Me By Your Name”: Film Review
Charming and bucolic, a meandering story of a summer idyll unexpectedly builds up into something deeply moving and memorable.
“The Florida Project”: Film Review
Mayhem reigns wherever Moonee (Brooklyn Prince), an irrepressible six-year-old, leads her friends. She is a little tornado of mischief, and has an answer for everything.
“Padre”: Film Review
Giada Colagrande’s latest film explores love after loss, in a richly musical and luminous story.
“Roma”: Film Review
An aesthetically stunning cinematic feat, Roma gives a vivid account of a Mexico City childhood set against a backdrop of surging political repression.