This piece was originally published by Film Inquiry on July 27, 2022. It’s all too easy to suffer from FOMO as another festival draws to a close, and the New York Asian Film Festival is no exception. Despite having seen a great variety of films from this year’s lineup, I already have regrets about the ones I didn’t get a chance to…

This piece was originally published by Film Inquiry on July 19, 2022. This summer marks the 20th anniversary of the New York Asian Film Festival, presented by the New York Asian Film Foundation and Film at Lincoln Center. The 2022 festival lineup includes six world premieres, eight international premieres, 19 North American premieres, four U.S. …

This piece was originally published by Film Inquiry on July 13, 2022. It’s easy to get your hopes up at the start of She Will when the words Dario Argento Presents appear on the screen in the iconic font one cannot help but associate with Suspiria. However, if you were expecting this film, which Argento executive produced, to be another spellbinding classic…

This piece was originally published by Film Inquiry on July 6, 2022. Director Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović made a splash at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival with Murina, winning the prestigious Camera d’Or for Best First Feature. …

This piece was originally published by Film Inquiry on June 21, 2022. One of the hardest things about being a teenage girl is feeling you have to represent a certain ideal of femininity as you grow into womanhood. That ideal is presented to you as what is most desirable for boys, and thus what every girl should aspire to be: pretty, and…

This piece was originally published by Film Inquiry on June 14, 2022. Hong Sang-soo is one of the most prolific directors working today; between 1996 (The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well) and 2022 (The Novelist’s Film) the South Korean filmmaker has released 27 features and three shorts, many of which have been honored at the world’s most prestigious film festivals…

This piece was originally published by Film Inquiry on June 9, 2022. Take a dash of Persona, mix it with a dollop of All About Eve, add a big pinch of punk energy, and what do you get? Poser, the debut feature from directors Noah Dixon and Ori Segev, who together run the Columbus, Ohio-based production house Loose Films. Shot on location…

This piece was originally published by Film Inquiry on June 7, 2022. Writer-director Bogdan George Apetri’s latest feature, Miracle, is a thought-provoking exploration of morality and mortality divided neatly into two parts: the first chronicling the lead-up to a devastating crime, the second the investigation that follows. …

This piece was originally published by Film Inquiry on May 27, 2022. Following its selection for the 2020 Cannes Film Festival (that never happened) and the 2021 Sundance Film Festival (that did), Pleasure has finally come to theaters in the United States. …