NYFF Review: Zama
Zama is a novelistic film, but not because it’s an adaptation of a 1956 Argentinian novel by Antonio di Benedetto. Watching Zama creates a ...
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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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Review: Manifesto
When a work is adapted to another medium, it almost always loses something in translation. Julian Rosefeldt’s Manifesto started its life as a ...
Tribeca Capsule Review: Flames
Flames offers an intriguing premise. Part documentary and part art movie, co-directors Josephine Decker and Zefrey Throwell document their relationship as it falls ...
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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: David Lynch: The Art Life
David Lynch: The Art Life hits a sweet spot in terms of its release date. Lynch’s feature-length debut Eraserhead has just turned 40 years ...
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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 ...
Phantasm: Ravager and the Phantasm 4k remaster get release dates–BOOOOOY!
A while ago we reported that J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot was overseeing a 4k restoration of Don Coscarelli’s 1979 cult classic Phantasm. I ...
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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 ...