Sophy Romvari on the unreliability of memory in Blue Heron and merging fiction and documentary

Sophy Romvari on the unreliability of memory in Blue Heron and merging fiction and documentary

I feel very strongly that we are when you are given the opportunity to make a film, you get to build your own world around it, and you get to build the environment that you shoot in, and I think I feel that I think that because I did that, it impacted the outcome of the film.…

Paloma Schneideman on staying true to her instincts

Paloma Schneideman on staying true to her instincts

Instinctually, you know what you know. No one really knows the film better than you. I mean, there are logistical things that people know better, and there are technical things that people know better. But there's no one who knows the chain of importance around the storytelling better than yourself.…

Vee Shi’s family docudrama Time and Tide shows China’s Filial Piety Law as emotionally and financially complex

Vee Shi’s family docudrama Time and Tide shows China’s Filial Piety Law as emotionally and financially complex

It is steadfast in its portrait of the family at their best and at their most exhausted and frayed. With the camera picking up not only the conversations and arguments, but also the physical dynamic of the family, Shi invites us into a world where the most casual acts are imbued with meaning.…

Gregg Araki says let’s get physical in I Want Your Sex

Gregg Araki says let’s get physical in I Want Your Sex

I Want Your Sex is a comic masterpiece with Araki sparing no one. The contemporary art world is far from groundbreaking, Erika is “over the hill” by her late 30s, Apple is fragile to the point where she “just can’t” with most things. And Elliot, poor Elliot, is a puppy who still isn’t housetrained.…