José Teodoro

Short Takes: Ray & Liz

By José Teodoro

July 10, 2019

Richard Billingham’s debut feature counters the grubby tenets of British miserablism with humor and beauty

Interview: Carlos Reygadas

By José Teodoro

June 6, 2019

Range of light: the director of Our Time on the thin line between art and life

Too Late to Die Young

By José Teodoro

June 3, 2019

Dominga Sotomayor’s third feature is a study in tumultuous transition

Interview: Peter Strickland

By José Teodoro

April 25, 2019

Off the rack: In Fabric tracks a haunted dress purchased at a department store filled with eerily persuasive salespeople

The Big Screen: Black Mother

By José Teodoro

March 11, 2019

Khalik Allah’s latest finds the New York–based photographer and filmmaker expanding his purview to include the entire nation of Jamaica, his maternal homeland

Bruno Ganz, Mischievous Angel

By José Teodoro

February 27, 2019

Watching over: Ganz often devoted the bulk of his energy to listening, captivating us with his attention

Art and Craft: All Is Permitted

By José Teodoro

December 4, 2018

The Turning of the Earth

By José Teodoro

September 10, 2018

Alfonso Cuarón’s richly realized Roma surrounds us with the bourgeois Mexico City of his youth, seen through the eyes of another

Short Take: The Captain

By José Teodoro

July 23, 2018

(Robert Schwentke, Germany/Poland/Portugal/France, Music Box Films, Opening July 27)

Review: A Fantastic Woman

By José Teodoro

February 1, 2018

(Sebastián Lelio, Country/Distributor: Chile/USA/Germany/Spain, Sony Pictures Classics, Opening February 2)

Interview: Lucrecia Martel

By José Teodoro

September 26, 2017

Colony records: Zama, the Argentine filmmaker’s stunning return to film after an eight-year absence, merges the country’s past and present

The State That I Am In

By José Teodoro

November 3, 2016

In Neruda and Jackie, shape-shifting filmmaker Pablo Larraín portrays two national icons through refracted storytelling and unexpected emotion

ND/NF Interview: Federico Veiroj

By José Teodoro

March 15, 2016

Doubts and murmurs: the director of The Apostate talks about his own religious upbringing and the similarities between the Catholic church and NSA

Interview: Trey Edward Shults

By José Teodoro

March 14, 2016

Prodigal mother: the director of Krisha discusses his high-tension family drama and learning by doing with Terrence Malick

Controlling Chaos

By José Teodoro

September 3, 2015

With Sicario, Quebecois director Denis Villeneuve ups the ante on his tales of terror and alienation

Festivals: L’immagine e la parola at Locarno

By José Teodoro

April 13, 2015

Locarno’s spring festival of word and image revives Pawel Pawlikowski’s tag-along with Dostoevsky and celebrates intrepid nonfiction novelist Emmanuel Carrère