Cinema Curator

Too Much Sugar is a movie about family, friends, and filmmaking—what’s not to like? It’s the latest project from Robert Greene, a regular collaborator of Alex Ross Perry (Greene has edited everything from Listen Up Philip to Pavements, as well as the Safdies’ Lenny Cooke). In his own work as a documentary filmmaker, he has always been fascinated by the […]

As per tradition, one day ahead of the Telluride Film Festival kicking off, they have unveiled their official lineup, including films by Andrew Haigh, Mike Leigh, Werner Herzog, Jordan Firstman, Jesse Eisenberg, Paweł Pawlikowski, Andrey Zvyagintsev, Danny Boyle, Sofia Coppola, Ira Sachs, Julia Loktev, Arthur Harari, Martin McDonagh, Cristian Mungiu, and more. The 53rd Telluride […]

Past a certain age and a certain number of features, a director will almost inevitably be embroiled in that stifling debate: have they reached their “late” style yet? What that means exactly can be tricky to articulate: writing about Beethoven, Theodor Adorno viewed late works of art as “devoid of sweetness, bitter and spiny”—masterful distillations […]

On my first evening in Sarajevo this year, I attended a party at the Spanish Ambassador’s residence. The get-together was in honor of Rodrigo Sorogoyen, whose latest movie, The Beloved, was set to screen at the festival’s storied open-air theatre that night. In all my years of coming to festivals, it was the first party […]

There’s a lovely moment in Danny Boyle’s new film Ink when Rupert Murdoch (Guy Pearce) and Larry Lamb (Jack O’Connell) crouch down to touch the pavement on London’s Fleet Street to feel the monstrous rumble of the printing presses below. The Australian proto-disruptor is fresh off the boat and has just poached Lamb from The Mirror, selling his […]

Uniting the physical and metaphysical, Chronovisor follows Columbia professor Béatrice Courte on a quest to research the titular object. Father Pellegrino Ernetti, an Italian monk, claimed to be one of the inventors of a device that can film the distant past. Determined to follow its history, she spends all her time in libraries looking through old books. Their […]

The fall-festival season is upon us with Telluride, Venice, TIFF, and NYFF all gearing up for their latest installments. So be on the lookout since some of those same titles might also pop up at your local multiplex in short order (see TIFF premiere Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother getting a limited release on […]

Welcome to The B-Side! Here we talk about movie directors! And sometimes we get to talk to movie directors about their own B-Sides! Today, with his new film Just Play Dead now in theaters and available on VOD/Digital, we spoke with the great Martin Campbell about his long, accomplished career. Along with Just Play Dead, […]

Opening the Venice Film Festival and picked up by Netflix for a year-end release, Danny Boyle’s Ink tracks the beginnings of Rupert Murdoch’s empire, with a cast including Jack O’Connell, Guy Pearce, and Claire Foy, based on the Tony-nominated play of the same name by James Graham (who also wrote this adaptation). Boyle has previously excelled at […]

Since 2024, I’ve had the distinct fortune of covering the Tokyo International Film Festival, which boasts one-of-one programming comprising world premieres of the best in contemporary Asian film, experimental cinema, and repertory classics. I’ll be present for the 39th edition, which begins on October 26, and for which the three centerpiece screenings have been announced. […]

Just off their acclaimed 2024 feature Ghostlight, Kelly O’Sullivan and Alex Thompson continued their status as preeminent chroniclers of modern American life with Mouse. The film—starring Sophie Okonedo, Katherine Mallen Kupferer, Chloe Coleman, Tara Mallen, Iman Vellani, David Hyde Pierce—made a fine impression at this year’s Berlinale, and will open on November 6 from the […]

A jolt to the Cannes Film Festival when it premiered later in the lineup, Los Javis’ La Bola Negra was snapped up by Netflix, which will roll it out beginning October 16, followed by a Netflix premiere on December 2––their longest theatrical window yet. Led by Guitarricadelafuente, Miguel Bernardeau, Carlos González, Milo Quifes, Lola Dueñas, […]