This release shows that the work of America’s premier purveyor of life on the fringes was both unflinching and empathetic from the start.
With his first time since The Florida Project, Sean Baker reveals another slice of our American capitalist underbelly.
This honest but warmly sentimental, observational film looks just as beautiful on home video as it does on a big screen.
Golden Exits, the new film by Alex Ross Perry, a favorite of this festival, is an explosion of the director’s aesthetic.
Baker discusses how he works with first-time actors and why it’s hard to make character studies for American audiences.
It invests the minutia of the down-and-out lives inside a budget motel with a bittersweet energy and significance.
Its triumph is primarily a matter of style, a visionary revelation every bit as expressionistic as its main character’s electric sense of shade.
One of the best and most under-seen American indies of the last few years arrives in an impressive package from Music Box Films.
The camera captures the characters’ exterior and internal spaces with delicacy and tremendous believability.