Expansive Territories: Remembering Kathleen Collins
Kathleen Conwell Collins Prettyman was born in Jersey City in 1942, and died in New York in 1988 at the…
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In praise of teenage self-disgust: ‘The Miseducation of Cameron Post’
The road to hell may be paved with good intentions, but in The Miseducation of Cameron Post, it is those…
We Need to Talk About Violence in Lynne Ramsay’s ‘You Were Never Really Here’
In You Were Never Really Here (2017) – Lynne Ramsay’s first feature film since 2011 – Joe (Joaquin Phoenix) is…
“I wanted to make a film that makes you feel like you’re in the middle of the storm”: An interview with ‘Shakedown’ director Leilah Weinraub
People warned me that my first Berlinale would be surreal, but nobody prepared me for the experience of sitting down…
From out of the Margins: BAM’s ‘A Different Picture: Women Filmmakers in the New Hollywood Era’ Series
Claudia Weill’s Girlfriends (1978) feels at once strikingly fresh and familiar, which is perhaps the secret of its enduring popularity…
‘Ocean’s 8’, Anna Delvey, and our love for the woman who wants to own the world
Debbie Ocean has been in prison for five years, eight months, and 12 days. Her brother Danny is dead. Probably….
Crazy In Love: Transgressive Femininities in Anna Biller’s ‘The Love Witch’
Anna Biller’s The Love Witch (2016) opens with the image of a solitary vintage car driving down an isolated California…
Lean on Pete, the anti-Odyssean epic
Andrew Haigh’s Lean on Pete takes the Yorkshire-born filmmaker to the luxuriant plains of America’s Pacific Northwest, where a fifteen-year-old…
“Learn to love your claustrophobia”: Jason Reitman’s ‘Tully’
Watching either of the two trailers for Tully, the third collaboration between Diablo Cody and Jason Reitman, you’d be forgiven…
Care at the Margins: Debra Granik’s ‘Leave No Trace’ (2018)
What does it mean to retreat, to withdraw, to leave the village for the forest? Is it a rejection of…
mother! in the name of The Father
“The stories of both the Anthropocene and the Capitalocene teeter constantly,” warns Donna Haraway, “on the brink of becoming much…
The Provincialism of the White Hipster: On Wes Anderson’s ‘Isle of Dogs’
Isle of Dogs presents, without a hint of irony, an American filmmaker’s fiction about the horrors of an internment camp…
A Hard, Uncomfortable and Poetic Film About the Survival of People: On ‘Mudbound’
In his novel, Requiem for a Nun, William Faulkner writes: “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” Born…