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Paul Roland on Faith and Movie Making September 23, 2024
In 2023, a talented young Catholic filmmaker named Paul Roland released a film he wrote, produced, directed, and stars in, calledExemplum. Shot in black and white, the film tells the story of a priest whose obsession with social media fame leads him ...
The Unnecessary Doom of 'Megalopolis' September 23, 2024
Few directors have a more legendary filmography than Francis Ford Coppola, the mind behind The Godfather trilogy, The Conversation, and Apocalypse Now. But Megalopolis, hitting cinemas this weekend, is the most ambitious project of his career. For Co...
The Tale of Two Tim Burtons September 05, 2024
“A small but significant relief.”“A return to joy.”These are just two of the early reviews greeting Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Tim Burton’s new sequel to the 1988 horror comedy that was his second feature film. After two decades of diminishing returns ...
Ava DuVernay Wants to Build a New System January 24, 2024
Richard Brody, whose writing about movies runs under the rubric The Front Row, never ceases to surprise me, and enlighten me, with his critical judgment. Like another colleague, Anthony Lane, he has introduced me to the work of more classic filmmaker...
Alex Lee Moyer Is Directing Her Third Documentary January 24, 2024
If you’re a chronically online meme page admin, or a disillusioned “doomer” who spends their days scrolling 4chan or Reddit, or a conspiracy theorist who’s lost all faith in the mainstream media—or all three combined—then some of the only films that ...
The Haunting Presence of Stanley Kubrick January 18, 2024
The most commercially successful film of last year, Greta Gerwig’s Barbie, may have attracted attention for its inimitable mixture of pop feminism and outrageously catchy songs, but there is another factor, hidden in plain sight from the very first t...
The Secret Fuel That Makes “Ferrari” Such a Triumph January 09, 2024
Half of life is spent dealing with details: the numbers, the paperwork, the dozens of discussions upon which any shared activity, professional or private, is based. (The other half of life is dealing with the results.) Many filmmakers leave such prac...
A Masterpiece of American Southern Filmmaking January 03, 2024
A pastoral scene opens Raven Jackson’s debut feature, All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt: We find Mack (played as a child by Kaylee Nicole Johnson), a pensive little girl in pigtails, crouching by the riverside as her father, Isaiah (Chris Chalk), gives he...
