Adelaide Film Festival Review: Anora
Ani (Mikey Madison) works at The Headquarters in Manhattan, a large adult club with exotic dancers, private rooms, and huge bar tabs. Sean Baker follows Ani around what appears to be an average night…
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Saturday Night is Poignant Pandemonium and an Exhilarating Jump Back in Time
“What kind of show is it?” Copper Hoffman’s NBC weekend producer asks Gabriel LaBelle’s Lorne Michaels of the television show that’s supposed to go live at 11.30pm on Saturday night, Oct 11, 1975. Lor…
Conclave Showcases Ralph Fiennes’ Decades Long Mastery of His Craft
Edward Berger’s adaptation of Robert Harris’ Holy See mystery/thriller Conclave is a mature film functioning as a character study of its accidental investigator and the character of the contemporary C…
London Film Festival Review: Anora is Another Triumph for Sean Baker and a Moment of Arrival for Mikey Madison
Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or winning Anora is a crowd-pleasing triumph which continues his impassioned exploration of people living on the margins of American society, drawn from elements of classic cinema…
NYFF Review: Blitz Marks Rare Misstep for Steve McQueen
Until now, Steve McQueen has never taken his audience for granted. With Blitz, however, he’s done just that, presuming the story of a mother and son searching for each other amidst the chaos of WWII t…
A Different Man is an Absurdist Masterpiece
Aaron Schimberg’s debut feature Chained for Life is a film about a questionable ‘European Auteur’ making what is clearly a low budget exploitation movie flirting with ideas of eugenics, monstrosity, a…
Parish Malfitano on Creating the Sensorially Invigorating Salt Along the Tongue
To call Parish Malfitano's sophomore feature, Salt Along the Tongue, a straight up horror film feels like a disservice to the experience of watching this magnificent melodrama-adjacent film. Yes,…
The Bikeriders: Americana Through the Eyes of Anthropological Director Jeff Nichols
‘What are you rebelling against?’ ‘Whaddya got?’ The Wild One With The Bikeriders, anthropological director Jeff Nichols makes his welcome return to feature filmmaking after years of languishing in…
Ghostlight is a Brave, Tender, Exquisite, and Unforgettable Experience
A ghostlight in theatre tradition is the single light kept burning in the theatre after all others have been extinguished. It is one of the many rituals adopted by theatre folk such as never saying “G…
Embracing the Beautiful Chaos: A Journey of Self-Discovery Through Girls Will Be Girls
There’s something undeniably captivating about the world of teenagers in film. These characters navigate the ups and downs of adolescence with a mix of sass and vulnerability, embodying the complexiti…
NYFF: Luca Guadagnino's Queer Holds Mirror Up to Two Different Artists’ Careers
The term “unadaptable” gets thrown around whenever a piece of literary fiction is primed for film/television and has thus, however inaptly, been applied to William S. Burroughs’ Queer. Written, as one…
Saara Lamberg on Creating a Filmography in a Community of Independent Filmmakers
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or Google Podcasts. Download the episode directly here. Finnish-Australian filmmaker Saara Lamberg has crafted a film…