Review: Endless Poetry
In what may be the final years of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s life, his work has turned inward and become sentimentally personal. He’s exploring his ...
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Review: The Bad Batch
Ana Lily Amirpour’s A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night was a sparse yet stunning debut that overflowed with languid cool. So much ...
Watch The Image, a 1969 horror short film starring a young David Bowie
David Bowie had a memorable, otherworldly presence on screen. He was a believable strung out alien in The Man Who Fell to Earth, ...
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Tribeca Capsule Review: November
I want to describe the opening scene of Rainer Sarnet’s November because it’s absolutely bonkers. There’s a sentient creature comprised of three scythes and ...
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Review: We Are the Flesh
Reviewing We Are the Flesh from writer/director Emiliano Rocha Minter is tricky. On the one hand, it’s a deeply flawed film aimed at ...
Ana Lily Amirpour’s The Bad Batch with Jason Momoa picked up by Netflix for SVOD
Writer/director Ana Lily Amirpour had a memorable debut with A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, a Jim Jarmusch-style Iranian vampire movie heavy ...
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Review: The Lobster
I still haven’t gotten around to seeing Yorgos Lanthimos’ Dogtooth, though I intend to. The blackly surreal 2009 film was nominated for a Best ...
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Review: The Forbidden Room
Guy Maddin’s The Forbidden Room has been described as a series of nested movies, but I don’t think that description is accurate. “Nested” ...
Steven Soderberg made a silent cut of Raiders of the Lost Ark
Steven Soderberg has had some time on his hands after “retiring,” and with that time he’s been tinkering with the art of film ...
Flix for Short: A Day for Cake and Accidents
A Day for Cake and Accidents is an animated short film, and a collaboration between artists Steve Reinke and Jessie Mott. The absurdest ...
Art Book: Crazy 4 Cult: Cult Movie Art 2
Over the past few years, no other name in the art world has become quite as synonymous with excellent popular culture art as ...
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NYFF Review: Stray Dogs
Sometimes I’m torn between the thing itself and the idea of the thing. I may not enjoy a book, for instance, but I ...