In this episode, Tyler and David are joined by Scott Nye to discuss the movies seen at this year’s AFI Fest, including: 45 YEARS ANOMALISA THE BIG SHORT BLOOD OF MY BLOOD CAROL CHEVALIER CHRONIC EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT FIELD...
Somewhere in the last ten years, certainly bolstered by the rise of digital cinema, the long take became something of a go-to move for festival films. If you’re really creating a film of serious intent, you’ll hold that shot until...
There are so many movies about the Holocaust that it can be tempting to develop a fatigue around the subject matter. But the enormity of the atrocity remains so incomprehensible that even another seven decades of stories couldn’t fill out...
You’re not going to see the latest Hong Sang-soo movie – you’re going to see the latest installment of the Hong Sang-soo show. Releasing at least one film each year since 2008 (plus doubling up in 2013), his films stick...
Rodrigo Plá’s A Monster with a Thousand Heads is a very angry movie. Given that it’s about the insurance industry – which it would seem operates in Mexico much like it does here – rage is an exceedingly appropriate response,...
Only a handful of reviews written in English exist of Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s Mustang at this point but, already, a comparison to The Virgin Suicides is beginning to feel like a perfunctory component. The association is an appropriate one but...
People keep secrets from one another. You can know someone for decades – say, forty-five years, give or take – and still you won’t know everything. Some things are small, simple matters of differing perceptions which go unacknowledged and which generally...