Features

Misery Loves Company

By Nathan Lee

March 25, 2025

Bottoms up: Alain Guiraudie’s latest Misericordia perfects a farcical logic that underpins all his filmmaking

Family Matters

By Ayanna Dozier

March 10, 2025

Bite our style: Rungano Nyoni’s On Becoming a Guinea Fowl explores everything from the tragicomedy of survival to the Black feminist refusals of Missy Elliott

A Floating Island

By Genevieve Yue

February 10, 2025

Pushing hands: In Ang Lee’s films, what seems to be about culture is a condition of the family, and vice versa

Mining Possibility: The 1983 Bolivian Miners’ Film Workshop

By Lucia Ahrensdorf

January 21, 2025

Life underground: how a notorious Nazi’s extradition from Bolivia gave rise to a radical film project in a mining town

What’s In the Box?

By Chris Shields & Sarah Fensom

January 13, 2025

Look again: boutique DVD and Blu-ray labels like Fun City Editions, Arbelos Films, and Vinegar Syndrome play a crucial role in sustaining canon-flouting cinema

Dream Baby Dream

By Garon Scott

January 13, 2025

Signed, sealed, delivered: Robert Eggers‘s Nosferatu projects a corrupted self-image of empire

Prison Movie Wives’ Black Heart Movie Diary: Best of 2024

By Sara Kielly, Courtney McDonell, and Jessica Sims

January 6, 2025

For old acquaintance: three incarcerated critics review the best films they saw this year

Control Issues

By Julia Gunnison

December 2, 2024

Closed city: Neo Sora‘s Happyend and Lilith Kraxner and Milena Czernovsky‘s bluish present visions of urban quiet

Watering the Grassroots: Film Fest Knox

By Mark Asch

December 2, 2024

Democratic vistas: a new Knoxville, Tennessee–based festival champions regional American cinema

Touch Visit: 2024 Sing Sing Film Festival

By Pooja Rangan

November 25, 2024

Access points: the first-ever documentary showcase held within a U.S. prison included a slate of competing films judged by an incarcerated jury