This year brought 18 features and seven shorts, all presented with live musical accompaniment.
It derives its success from the unsentimental alchemy of its frank dialogue, chemistry between its two leads, and Linklater’s deceptively simple visual style.
Stacie Passon approaches Concussion’s subject matter provocatively though never exploitatively.
The film is a smartly written, deeply engaging portrait of a movement just about to begin.
It’s unfortunate that we never learn what Diana is actually running from.
Persistence of Vision is just as rhythmically inclined as the lost masterpiece it dotes upon.
As indicated by its title, the film is super-sensitive to class divisions.
The real world, or at least the attempt to transmit some finite aspect of it, has been the aim of many a film.
These are two very different films about the avenues through which individuals feel fulfilled, or alienated, by those they consider close comrades.
Everybody’s Got Somebody…Not Me film gingerly navigates its display of sexuality.
Ungerer narrates the story of his tumultuous life with a mixture of hard-earned wisdom and youthful impetuosity.
The film is as much a nail-biting thriller as an experiment in narrative dualism.
The selection of films at this year’s Santa Fe Independent Film Festival was arguably as piquant as any of the local chile-centric food.
Serbia has one of the most extraordinary recent histories of any European nation.
That Flight happily dwells within conventional boundaries can be frustrating given the raw and affecting potential of the material.
Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larraín gives us another take on his country’s dark dance with military dictatorship in No.
Vladimir Putin’s Russia is a complex place.
Though Ginger & Rosa is arguably Sally Potter’s best work to date, it’s certainly the filmmaker’s most accessible.
Under the mercurial surface lies a sorrowful heart.
There’s no empathy in Haneke’s carefully composed frames, ruthlessly prolonged takes, and generally detached stance.
Bwakaw acknowledges the human spirit’s uncanny power to heal even the most traumatizing wounds.