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Jordan Cronk
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
Interview: Abel Ferrara and Willem Dafoe
By
Jordan Cronk
May 29, 2019
I’ll be your mirror: the director and his frequent lead on
Tommaso
, an auto-fiction set in Rome
Cannes 2019: Preview Part II
By
Jordan Cronk
May 13, 2019
Waiting on the day: this year’s festival features work from a promising collection of young directors
Interview: José Celestino Campusano
By
Jordan Cronk
May 9, 2019
Rough necks: the Argentine filmmaker on how the personal and the political inform his new
Men of Hard Skin
Cannes 2019: Preview I
By
Jordan Cronk
May 7, 2019
Avant le déluge: our first overview of this year‘s offerings, including films by the Dardenne Brothers, Lav Diaz, and Pedro Almodóvar
Interview: Nina Menkes
By
Jordan Cronk
April 25, 2019
Wheel of fortune: The 1991
Queen of Diamonds
, at BAM April 26, proceeds in a deceptively complex, elliptical fashion
Interview: Miko Revereza
By
Jordan Cronk
April 18, 2019
Running on empty:
No Data Plan
frames a three-day train journey as a microcosm of the immigrant experience
Overnight to Distant Cities
By
Jordan Cronk
April 9, 2019
With
Long Day’s Journey Into Night
, in theaters April 12, Bi Gan returns to his hometown through an elaborate romance of dreams and memories
Dispatch: Qumra 2019
By
Jordan Cronk
April 8, 2019
New age: Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Alice Rohrwacher, and VR and its discontents at the Doha Film Institute's industry summit in Qatar
Interview: Sofia Bohdanowicz & Deragh Campbell
By
Jordan Cronk
March 19, 2019
It's relative: the directors of
MS Slavic 7
on the use of biography and the strange experience of playing a version of your director on screen
Berlinale 2019 Dispatch
By
Jordan Cronk
March 4, 2019
State of transition: this year's highlights point toward a welcome renewal for the venerable festival
Rotterdam 2019 Dispatch
By
Jordan Cronk
February 21, 2019
"I’m not a filmmaker. I just made a film": new films from José Celestino Campusano, Jang Woojin, and Romina Paula highlight the festival
Interview: Nëil Beloufa
By
Jordan Cronk
January 9, 2019
Not here to make friends: the director of
Occidental
talks about using the lurid customs of reality television to create new art
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
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