‘Contagion’ in the Age of Corona
It’s been ten years since I watched Contagion, yet even after all this time, there is one edit I remember…
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War is Hell… So is Sitting Through ‘1917’
1917 exists, first and foremost, to give itself a medal of honour: a war film made to look like two…
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Going Deep Inside Cinema L’Amour
Content Warning: Everything you’d assume was in an article about Cinema L’Amour (sex, pornography, and general profanity). There are three…
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Give The Irishman the Time it Deserves
“I never waited for anyone who was late more than ten minutes in my life,” says Jimmy Hoffa to his…
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Five Masterful Films at the Festival Du Nouveau Cinéma
Bong Joon Ho’s new thriller Parasite is a towering work; at once Bong’s most daring filmmaking and his tightest. If…
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Fantasia Finale: The Good, The Bad, and the Weird
Joe Begos’ 80-minute psychedelic stunner Bliss isn’t the best Fantasia film I’ve seen, but it may be the most Fantasia….
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Melodrama, Melting Clown Makeup, and “The Myth of the Mean Girl” – In Conversation with Jennifer Reeder
Jennifer Reeder’s revelatory new film Knives and Skin is the best film I saw at Fantasia Film Fest: a sumptuously…
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Week 2 At Fantasia – Style Over Style
Can a film subsist on style alone? That’s the question I found myself returning to during my second week at…
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The First Weekend at Fantasia: Phantoms and Paradise
In preparation for this year’s Fantasia Film Festival, I looked over my coverage from last year and was utterly shocked…
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Sitting on a David Lynch Sofa – Consciousness and Creativity with Lynch and Bob Roth
On a long car ride, experimental filmmaker David Lynch likes to play a variation of the license plate game. The…
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