In 2001, the Palestinian filmmaker Kamal Aljafari set out to find a man he had known while imprisoned in the late 1980s, when he was only 17. With only his memories, Aljafari embarked on a road trip through Gaza with a guide named Hasan in search of his friend.
Rather than experience some sexual awakening, heartbreak, or lesson on the limits of libertinism, Cata comes to realize just how little she knows her own family—and, more so, her distinct place within it.
Across its runtime, The Currents refuses straightforward answers to its questions. In the aftermath of her icy plunge, which she conceals from her husband and daughter, Lina becomes physically repelled by the sound and touch of flowing water.
Video games have a complex moment-to-moment relationship with their audience...The writers discuss examples (successful and not) of accessories and add-ons and what they do for their respective games.
Boosters hyperbolizes the cycles of appropriation within the fashion industry: the Velvet Gang’s urban community admires and desires Christie’s take on the avant-garde, while the designer “fucking making art” blithely rips off Black subculture.
As with most technical innovations, cinema purists have not all immediately aligned behind the positive potential of the handheld gimbal. After all, great cinema has survived to date without over-stabilizing the image, and very bad cinema is often over reliant on it.
The films of Irish writer-director Damian McCarthy are a welcome reminder of how a reverence for and attention to classic tenets of filmmaking—indeed, to the rich history of cinema, both mainstream and independent—can still yield surprising, thrilling results.
As he is playing a film director trying desperately to get his next project off the ground, Vasyanovych’s presence imparts extra import to a film about how art can best speak to a politically charged moment.
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Silent Friend is most engaging in how it uses its broad scope to accrue a Wunderkammer of vaguely related niche subjects. The film’s conviction that its plants are full characters is best realized through its investigation into how changing technology opens new ways for humans to understand them.
In such difficult times, nostalgia remains a lifeblood for characters who risk losing themselves. Moonglow looks back down roads not taken, images and gestures emanating through the hazy humidity of the Manila night like cigarette smoke.
Although the film is constructed as a love letter to Alexander von Humboldt, it reveals something larger: the state of a nation that has abandoned his wisdom.
The resulting tension undermines the initial project and becomes the subject of the film, revealing the uneasy power dynamics at play between filmmaker and participants.
"One of the big things that I want people to take away is the beauty of human connection, like a one-on-one connection with someone, just a phone call. It's so simple, and now we're just so saturated with technology."
He never went away, but Two Pianos feels like a triumphant return for Desplechin, a testament to his maturing style and the observable fact that he is still a filmmaker to be reckoned with.
Documenting the high-stakes Chocobar trial and unraveling the state’s deceptions requires a certain amount of linear and coherent storytelling, which Martel has traditionally resisted in her films.