Dahomey, the ‘fantasy documentary’ exploring colonial history
Mati Diop considers Dahomey to be a “fantasy documentary”. A blend of sci-fi touches, duelling debates about colonial trauma, and foot...Read More
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Showing posts with label Nick Chen. Show all posts
Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong on The Apprentice: ‘It’s a love story’
Donald Trump really doesn’t want you to see The Apprentice . Days after the Iranian-Danish director Ali Abbasi’s lurid retelling of Trum...Read More
Why 2006 fantasy The Fall is finally getting the recognition it deserves
Tarsem is still ruing the box office failure of his 2006 fantasy feature The Fall . “I made a lot of enemies, one of them being Harvey Wein...Read More
The Beast: This extraordinary sci-fi tackles sex, robots and AI
It may not be obvious that Bertrand Bonello’s extraordinary sci-fi The Beast is based on literature from more than a century ago. In th...Read More
Alex Garland on Civil War, Jonathan Glazer, and ‘right or left’ politics
Alex Garland asks challenging questions in his films – and also in person, too. I learn this when Garland interrupts me to take umbrage wi...Read More
American Fiction, a film about the white obsession with Black pain
When Jeffrey Wright won a Tony Award in 1994 for Angels in America , the then-twentysomething actor delivered a rousing speech abou...Read More
Dream Scenario: an A24 nightmare about Nicolas Cage infiltrating your brain
The internet is so full of Nicolas Cage memes that if somebody made that point to you, you could send the “ YOU DON’T SAY ” GIF from Vam...Read More
Pedro Almodóvar on Parallel Mothers: ‘Conservatives don’t like this movie’
In Pedro Almodóvar ’s 2009 thriller Broken Embraces , a poster hangs in the background for Parallel Mothers . In the framed image, two ...Read More
Noomi Rapace on Lamb, a fucked-up fable about motherhood
The creative team behind Lamb , a warped, Icelandic comedy-drama with a tinge of horror, don’t want you to watch the trailer. They’re not e...Read More
Mike Mills on the messiness of families and directing Joaquin Phoenix
Five years after directing 20th Century Women , Mike Mills has returned with a poignant meditation on 21st century children.hellip; read ...Read More
Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn: an arthouse comedy about a viral sex tape
“In the UK, there’s maybe a Victorian Era heritage in your morals, where you’re very prudish,” Radu Jude suggests to me in The Mayfair Hote...Read More
Ryūsuke Hamaguchi: ‘Creativity can be born out of sexual desire’
In Ryūsuke Hamaguchi ’s films, the characters tend to be artists and fantasists – the latter are so skilled at deception and denial, it’s p...Read More
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