Category: Criticism

Cahiers du Cinema

There’s a terrific essay by Emilie Bickerton on Cahiers du Cinema—the best-known film magazine in the world—in a recent issue

Six Types Of Documentary

Here’s my single favorite thing about blogging: being able to educate oneself in public. Going through this process—trying to move

Safe

A few thoughts about Safe (Todd Haynes, 1995): Safe is a sort of horror movie, but not your usual kind:

Toronto Film Festival–“Three Times”

Hou Hsiao-Hsien, from Taiwan, is probably my favorite living filmmaker, and so his new one, Three Times, was unsurprisingly the

Toronto Film Festival–“L’Intrus”

And now I arrive with some trepidation at the most vivid, confident, musical, beautiful and baffling of the films I’ve

Toronto Film Festival–“The Holy Girl”

Lucretia Martel is one of the key figures of the recent Argentine New Wave. She’s young, and has made just

Toronto Film Festival–Avant-Garde Films

Three interesting avant-garde films I saw tonight: — It’s Not My Memory Of It–Three Recollected Documents, by two media artists,