Throughout his latest feature, Andersson offers a sustained autocritique of his own authorial control.
Love stories don’t come much more loveless than they do in the culminating film in de Oliveira’s Tetralogy of Frustrated Love.
The film’s real subject is a young woman awakening to her oppression, rendered poignant in all its awkwardness by Noée Abita.
Engel’s overarching subject is the child within, an innocence he repeatedly links to both photography and movies.
Compellingly and surprisingly, the film doesn’t propose an entirely celebratory view of our accountability-seeking present.
The film trickles out its story world in discrete blocks of sound and image.
Frank Beauvais’s found-footage memoir is of piercing honesty and haunting relevance.
This Blu-ray invites us to reassess an undervalued oddball from the height of Eastwood’s stardom.
With his first solo feature, Joshua Bonnetta is again contemplating death and the traces it leaves behind.
The film is a generous ode to a rural community and a touching intergenerational drama lavished with pictorial beauty.
The film’s reminder of the fragility of agrarian traditions in the face of a merciless profit motive is delivered with tact and subtlety.
Sean Durkin’s sweated-over filmmaking tediously lifts a familiar tale of domestic dysfunction to the level of myth.
Matías Piñeiro’s latest unfolds at times like a Hollis Frampton-esque image association game.
Beyond their plot parallels, both films are further united by the grounding presence of Barbara Stanwyck.
It’s in certain characters’ trajectories that the Ross brothers locate the tragic soul of the bar.
Flicker Alley’s disc offers everything one could want out of a home video release.
It recognizes that even the sturdiest of friendships are inevitably tested by time and the evolution of personal responsibility.
Hlynur Pálmason’s sophomore feature tackles the subject of masculinity in crisis.
A zen-like study of aging and male friendship, Reichardt’s sophomore feature remains one of her best.
Thomas Heise’s documentary seeks to excavate real human thought and feeling beneath the haze of larger political structures.