Film

Messages from/for the future (Berlin, Berlin part 3)

Or how LAST AND FIRST MEN and BAD TALES suggested…

Berlin, Berlin (part I)

Where I set the scene for my memory journal of the 2020 Berlin Film Festival…

The seagull

I have no idea what Robert Eggers’ THE LIGHTHOUSE actually is, other than a strikingly…

The lion doesn’t sleep tonight

LES MISÉRABLES, Ladj Ly’s Oscar-nominated Cannes award-winner, is a…

The system only dreams in total darkness

Noah Baumbach’s MARRIAGE STORY is a tale of divorce as an unwitting slow-motion disaster

One singular sensation

FOSSE/VERDON isn’t about Broadway, but an impressionistic, absorbing take on…

The house they live in

Greta Gerwig’s LITTLE WOMEN is irresistible, moving, full of life — the perfect…

Let’s pretend we’re bunny rabbits

Much has been said of JOJO RABBIT; let’s just say it has its heart…

The other 1917

Premiering at the 2020 Rotterdam film festival, João Nuno Pinto’s MOSQUITO is an…

The fifth element

An anguished, tick-tocking claustrophobic suspense tale, Jacques Becker’s THE HOLE…