The Tsugua Diaries is something like Memento for an age of isolation and listlessness.
This entrancing magnum opus is one of the singular works of the decade to date, and Kino’s excellent Blu-ray belongs in any cinephile’s collection.
The filmmaker discusses the role of scatology in the Arabian Nights trilogy and his frustrations with political passivity.
Miguel Gomes combats austerity with expansiveness, leavened by doses of frivolity and scatology.
It forays into satirical terrain in order to elide actual dealings with the problems at hand, so that each piece feels alternatively frivolous and weighty.
Miguel Gomes’s formal talents, which include a flair for close-ups of elegantly smooth or weathered faces, transcend his soft spot for the didactic.
Highlights of this year’s FIDMarseille included works that traveled beyond the European continent in search of lost (and unknown) connections.
If you’ve followed the Up documentary series, you know that it catches up with a cross-section of Britishers every seven years.
The pangs of romance, eroticism, anguish, and longing transcend any period of cinema Tabu may evoke.
Between Tabu and The Last Time I Saw Macao, it would seem that hardlined formal rigor is alive and well in Portugal.
After a few initial disappointments in Berlinale’s main competition, things gradually began to pick up.
Our Beloved Month of August takes on a singular rhythm from the very beginning.