Published by Film Society of Lincoln Center

Violet Lucca

Review: The Challenge

By Violet Lucca
September 1, 2017
(Director: Yuri Ancarani, Country/Distributor: France/Italy, Kino Lorber, Opening: September 8)

Interview: Kiyoshi Kurosawa

By Violet Lucca
July 17, 2017
Hold still: the Japanese filmmaker delves into the uncanny once again, this time on French soil, in Daguerrotype

Short Take: Endless Poetry

By Violet Lucca
July 3, 2017
(Alejandro Jodorowsky, Chile/Japan/France, ABKCo Films, Opens July 14)

Review: Beatriz at Dinner

By Violet Lucca
May 3, 2017
(Miguel Arteta, USA, 
Roadside Attractions, Opens June 9)

Frame to Frame: Nocturama

By Violet Lucca
May 3, 2017
In the final scene of Nocturama, the state’s brutal logic is fulfilled

Festivals: Miami 2017

By Violet Lucca
March 27, 2017
On international waters: this year's festival presented a wide-ranging selection of fiction and documentary films that made difficult subject matter accessible but not glib

Review: Contemporary Color

By Violet Lucca
March 3, 2017
(Bill and Turner Ross, USA, Oscilloscope, Opens March 1)

No Joke

By Violet Lucca
February 28, 2017
Out of touch and rehashing ideas, is American comedy simply circling the drain?

Interview: Eliza Hittman

By Violet Lucca
January 24, 2017
Summer loving, happened so fast: the director of Beach Rats and It Felt Like Love discusses representing sex and sexuality on screen

Review: The Founder

By Violet Lucca
January 3, 2017
(John Lee Hancock, USA, The Weinstein Company, Opens January 20)

Short Take: Donald Cried

By Violet Lucca
January 3, 2017
(Kris Avedisian, USA, The Orchard, Opens March 3)

Directions: Bertrand Bonello

By Violet Lucca
January 3, 2017
In Bertrand Bonello’s terrorism drama Nocturama, radicals stalk Paris and take action

Interview: Alexander Lemke

By Violet Lucca
December 19, 2016
Out of the computer-generated shadows: a VFX veteran discusses the demands of making something out of nothing

The Lives of Others

By Violet Lucca
November 10, 2016
Margaret’s case study of an adolescent compulsively testing the limits of experience

Review: The Love Witch

By Violet Lucca
November 3, 2016
(Anna Biller, USA, Opening November 11)

The Cleaning Crew

By Violet Lucca
November 2, 2016
From touch-ups to full makeovers, the work of today’s digital artisans deserves more credit

Short Takes: The Handmaiden

By Violet Lucca
September 6, 2016
(Park Chan-wook, South Korea, Opening October 14)

Review: Microbe & Gasoline

By Violet Lucca
July 5, 2016
(Michel Gondry, France, 2015)

Short Takes: The Childhood of a Leader

By Violet Lucca
July 5, 2016
(Brady Corbet, U.K./France, 2015)

Representation + Belladonna of Sadness

By Violet Lucca
May 12, 2016
From reverence to rape: parsing the form and function of a provocative, newly restored cult animation classic