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Jordan Cronk

Locarno 2021: Mass Appeal

By Jordan Cronk
August 23, 2021
Religious experience: three films point to a way forward for a Locarno that caters to both cinephiles and the masses

Cannes Interview: Miguel Gomes & Maureen Fazendeiro

By Jordan Cronk
July 26, 2021
Three's company: the directors of The Tsugua Diaries discuss their playful and profound account of pandemic life

Cannes Interview: Kirill Serebrennikov

By Jordan Cronk
July 19, 2021
Sick of it all: the Russian director of the phantasmagorical Petrov’s Flu on virtuoso long takes, his background in theater, and making films under house arrest

Currents: Divinely Evil

By Jordan Cronk
May 8, 2020
New and important work plucked from festivals and elsewhere

Currents: The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin)

By Jordan Cronk
May 8, 2020
New and important work plucked from festivals and elsewhere

Interview: Yervant Gianikian

By Jordan Cronk
April 24, 2020
Soul singer: one half of a filmmaking team pays tribute to his departed partner and collaborator of over four decades

Interview: Lois Patiño

By Jordan Cronk
April 9, 2020
Red sky at night: the Galician filmmaker on the unexpected discoveries that shaped his intoxicating narrative hybrid Red Moon Tide

Interview: Thomas Heise

By Jordan Cronk
March 11, 2020
Family plan: the director of Heimat Is a Space in Time on tracing nearly 100 years of German history

Interview: Cristi Puiu

By Jordan Cronk
February 28, 2020
Platonic roundtable: the director of Malmkrog and The Death of Mr. Lazarescu delves into the drama of dialogue in his latest, a Berlinale premiere

Dispatch: Berlinale 2020 Preview

By Jordan Cronk
February 19, 2020
Sink or swim: on paper at least, the 70th edition of the festival looks to be as exciting as any in recent memory

Dispatch: Rotterdam 2020

By Jordan Cronk
February 18, 2020
Send in the clouds: the latest edition featured arguably the strongest competition of the past five years

The Decade in Experimental Film

By Jordan Cronk
January 14, 2020
Fabric of time: an overview of a tumultuous era of moving image works

House of the Spirits

By Jordan Cronk
January 6, 2020
Pedro Costa returns with the masterful Vitalina Varela—quite possibly the most beautiful film of 2020

Interview: Jessica Sarah Rinland

By Jordan Cronk
October 28, 2019
Copy that: the artist and director on her aesthetically intoxicating new film Those That, at a Distance, Resemble Another

Interview: Philipp Fleischmann

By Jordan Cronk
October 17, 2019
In space and time: the experimental filmmaker on building his own cameras, the politics of light, and cinema’s uneasy standing within the art world

Interview Excerpt: Pedro Costa

By Jordan Cronk
October 8, 2019
Read an excerpt from a forthcoming interview with the director of Vitalina Varela, one of the most acclaimed films of the year

Cracking the Code: Corneliu Porumboiu

By Jordan Cronk
October 7, 2019
Romanian puzzler Corneliu Porumboiu delights in deceit with the island crime yarn The Whistlers, screening at NYFF

Matters of Life and Death: Nadav Lapid

By Jordan Cronk
September 30, 2019
The director of Synonyms looks within to portray the essence of the outlier

Interview: Tyler Taormina

By Jordan Cronk
September 5, 2019
While we're young: Tyler Taormina's surburban-set debut comes on like a slightly surreal teen comedy before segueing into something far stranger 

Interview: Bertrand Bonello

By Jordan Cronk
June 11, 2019
Dead or alive: the director of Zombi Child on voodoo, the oneiric, and his use of music