Grief stages: the Canadian auteur discusses making art to process loss, the eroticism of conspiracy theories, and why his latest is very much a Toronto film
Double trouble: Barry Levinson‘s new mob movie trades on the gambit of its two Robert De Niro performances, yet fails to imbue them with any more brio than one finds in an SNL sketch
Watching the show: the Austrian critic and curator discusses his debut feature, a cinematic essay that investigates the on- and off-screen personas of the legendary American actor, and what they reveal about the United States then and now
Long journey: Sarah Friedland‘s debut feature Familiar Touch—the Opening Night selection of this year’s New Directors/New Films Festival—is the rare film about aging that bypasses the lurid and the exploitative
On the lookout: critics Mark Asch and Natalia Keogan join to discuss this year’s lineup of films by emerging directors, including Familiar Touch, Mad Bills to Pay, Lost Chapters, and more
Sweet dreams: there is something unsettlingly liminal about the Okinawan artist’s videos, which take place on thresholds like graveyards, fences, and national borders
