Labyrinth of Cinema
Japanese filmmaker Nobuhiko Obayashi was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2016, about three years before he completed “Labyrinth of Cinema,” a trippy anti-war drama about Japanese war movies, of which Obayashi…
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Introductions to The Complete Kieślowski
The following 43 filmed introductions to the (nearly) complete film, documentary and TV work by Krzysztof Kieślowski were commissioned by Warsaw-based Adam Mickiewicz Institute and filmed at Warsaw Film School.…
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The Language of Silence: Valdimar Jóhannsson on Lamb
You can’t drive a mile in Iceland without passing a pool, a hill, or a cliff that once was the site of a mass execution or other atrocities. The country’s…
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A Cop Movie
If you’re old enough to remember the 1960s you know that large factions of the youth population in America had a low opinion of the police. Once derided as “the…
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A Look Back at the 2021 Middleburg Film Festival
The show went on, pandemic be damned! This year, the eighth Middleburg Film Festival was able to lure cineastes to view movies on the big screen again. Like many film…
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Death is Good: The Horror Films of Val Lewton
Every October, it’s something of a tradition to watch as many horror films as one can possibly manage. I of course support the mainstays like “The Shining” or “A Nightmare on…
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Mothers of the Revolution
History books credit former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev with the end of the Cold War and the movements toward democracy and freedom of the press that led to the breaking…
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Listening to Each Other: On 1996’s Beyond Silence
Before this year’s Sundance hit “CODA,” there was the 1996 German film “Beyond Silence,” an extraordinary drama about a CODA (Child of Deaf Adult) girl trying to live her own…
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The Blazing World
Steeped in heartache, trauma, and loss, Carlson Young’s “The Blazing World” is a bid by a wounded soul to find comfort and healing. Dripping in bright colors and bizarre imagery,…
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