‘The Young Karl Marx’ Review: A Dialogue Between Realism & Idealism
Raoul Peck’s Der Junge Karl Marx (The Young Karl Marx) was a surprising film. In one sense, the film is quite mainstream. Core conventions…
‘Strolling’ Screening at Berlin Feminist Film Week
If you are a reflective, empathetic, observant human being, then the art you create will thrive with the themes emerging from your identity as it…
‘Toni Erdmann’ Review: An Exercise In Holding Onto A Fleeting Moment
Through what portal do we enter a film? Unlike Orson Welles’ famously complex crane shot at the beginning of Touch of Evil or Wim…
Berlinale 2017 Review: ‘Autumn Autumn’ by Jang Woo-jin
Our life stories are positioned in a weave, not a line. Diverging from a tradition insisting that our lives are most comprehensible if plotted…
Review: ‘Mr. Rodolfo’s Jubilee,’ A World Premiere
Mr. Rodolfo’s Jubilee - The Premiere: Until artists achieve celebrity, many people question their talent, sanity, and most often, their choice of occupation. Indie…
Decadent Men: On Woody Allen’s ‘Irrational Man’
From the darkly lyrical ennui of Fleurs du Mal or the moral deterioration of Dorian Gray to the existential overtones of Waiting for Godot—the…
Experiment & Play: Norman McLaren’s Animations
Defining itself as a “record on celluloid”, Dziga Vertov’s 1929 silent documentary film Man with a Movie Camera consciously avoids the trappings of story…
‘VOOR FILM’: Art Teaches Itself
Running as a documentary film at the interfilm short film festival, VOOR FILM (Netherlands, 2015) directed by Douwe Dijkstra, reveals the organic fusion of…