Jordan Cronk

Interview: Jodie Mack

By Jordan Cronk

September 7, 2018

Pattern recognition: oh, the places you’ll go with the director of a handmade fabric fantasia on film

Locarno Interview: Virgil Vernier

By Jordan Cronk

August 27, 2018

Utopia is nowhere: the French filmmaker haunts another location with fragmentary character portraits and spiritual anomie in the air

Interview: Yann Gonzalez

By Jordan Cronk

June 14, 2018

Adult entertainment: the French filmmaker, winner of the Prix Jean Vigo, discusses his story set in the gay porn industry when film was still king

Cannes Interview: Ryusuke Hamaguchi

By Jordan Cronk

May 23, 2018

It's the loneliest number since the number one: the Japanese director of Asako I & II follows a young woman's doubled romance to the bittersweet end

Cannes Interview: Gabriel Abrantes & Daniel Schmidt

By Jordan Cronk

May 17, 2018

Puppy love: the co-directors of post-postmodern digital satire Diamantino—now screening in NYFF—probe desire, family, and football

Interview: Ruth Beckermann

By Jordan Cronk

April 9, 2018

Media blitz: the director/cameraperson of The Waldheim Waltz revisits the story of the disgraced Austrian politician using contemporary footage

Berlin Interview: Lav Diaz

By Jordan Cronk

March 26, 2018

The singing detectives: the surrealist Season of the Devil takes on the horrors of a corrupt police state

Berlin Interview: Christian Petzold

By Jordan Cronk

February 28, 2018

Regrettably timeless: the filmmaker’s latest, Transit, shows the stark parallels between the Holocaust and the European refugee crisis

Festivals: Rotterdam 2018

By Jordan Cronk

February 21, 2018

It’s complicated: can this early champion of the likes of Lav Diaz and Carlos Reygadas recover its former glories?

The Year in Experimental Film

By Jordan Cronk

January 4, 2018

No boundaries: considering some of 2017's most thoughtful entries in avant-garde film

Interview: Thomas Arslan

By Jordan Cronk

January 3, 2018

Country life: the Berlin Schooler and director of Bright Nights discusses creating characters out of places

Ready to Wear

By Jordan Cronk

January 3, 2018

Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Carne y Arena turns the suffering of border crossings into a consumable VR experience

Interview: Ben Russell

By Jordan Cronk

October 4, 2017

Live from the crevasse: the director of Good Luck discusses his film from his Los Angeles home, as it plays

Interview: Serge Bozon

By Jordan Cronk

September 29, 2017

Comédie-Française: the Mrs. Hyde director explains how he puts a spin on the realities of teaching and racial disparities in the Parisian suburbs

Festivals: Locarno 2017

By Jordan Cronk

September 1, 2017

No ego: the diverse offerings at the fest’s 70th edition offered an even playing field

Interview: Hong Sangsoo

By Jordan Cronk

July 1, 2017

Another round: the idiosyncratic and increasingly prolific Korean filmmaker discusses his two films at Cannes this year, Claire’s Camera and The Day After