There is no working filmmaker whose process is more inseparable from his images than Mark Jenkin’s. All three of his features have been shot in Cornwall on 16mm using a clockwork Bolex, a camera that runs roughly twenty-seven seconds before […]

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In the documentary The Siege of Paradise, Irish director Gar O’Rourke examines the toll that rapidly rising rates of tourism take on Italy’s beautiful Cinque Terre region. Comprised of five separate villages—Corniglia, Manarola, Monterosso, Riomaggiore, and Vernazza—along the northern Mediterranean […]

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By Hook or by Crook arrived in 2001 as the kind of film queer and trans cinema needed before the culture knew how to ask for it. Written, directed by, and starring Silas Howard and Harry Dodge, the film emerged from […]

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Blue Film is one of the most daring American debuts in recent memory. Written and directed by Elliot Tuttle, the film traps two men in a Los Angeles Airbnb for a single night and refuses to let either of them […]

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Mainstream feature animation has become an airless thing. Every frame is locked down, every surface polished, every emotional beat pre-chewed for the audience. Sébastien Laudenbach works in the opposite direction. His characters seem to have just been drawn, his colors […]

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The Berkshire International Film Festival returns for its 20th anniversary celebration from May 28 – 31, showcasing 31 documentaries – including two world premieres – alongside 29 narrative features, 29 short films, and a free animated shorts program for children. […]

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The 2026 Seattle International Film Festival opened with a bang as a sold-out crowd filled the historic Paramount Theater to see Boots Riley’s second feature film, I Love Boosters. In honor of the film’s high fashion theme, Riley wore a […]

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Director Katie Aselton (Mack & Rita) is out with a new film, Magic Hour (which I also reviewed), in which she also stars, joined by Daveed Diggs (Blindspotting), Brad Garrett (Cha Cha Real Smooth) and others. Co-written with her husband, […]

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Modern Whore, which world-premiered at TIFF, is the latest sex-work-destigmatizing project in an unusual multiyear collaboration between director Nicole Bazuin and the hybrid doc’s co-writer and star Andrea Werhun (who also served as a consultant on EP Sean Baker’s Anora). […]

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In the Blink of an Eye is a science fiction drama that asks what connects us across the vast expanse of time. Directed by two-time Academy Award winner Andrew Stanton (Finding Nemo, WALL-E) and written by Colby Day (Spaceman), the […]

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