“An eight-hour film spread across five feature-length episodes, the self-referential title of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Acht Stunden sind kein Tag (Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day, 1972-1973) opens […]
TROUT FUN: Tobias Burms on ‘Band of Angels’ (1957, dir. Raoul Walsh)
As the very first installment of TROUT FUN, an ongoing series of articles by guest writers and fellow critics, Tobias Burms weighs in on the romanticized take on the […]
Short Film: ORANGE
This is my latest short film and the second part of a quadrilogy-in-progress focused on the state of nature through the seasons. ORANGE is set in Winter and features a […]
Berlinale #5: ‘Golden Exits’ review
“Slowly we’re brought into a film through in-between spaces; Brooklyners out for their afternoon strolls lit by near-‘golden hour’ evening light underscored by leisurely relaxing piano notes which […]
Berlinale #4: Interview with Mathieu Denis about ‘Those Who Make Revolution Halfway Only Dig Their Own Graves’
A three-hour venture about the 2012 Quebec student protests and four fictional characters as they carried their ideas forward in the following years, and featuring an overture and […]
Berlinale #3: Interview with Julian Radlmaier about his debut feature film ‘Self-Criticism of a Bourgeois Dog’
As the 67th International Berlin Film Festival came to a steady close, I sat down with the (relatively) young German director Julian Radlmaier about his debut feature film […]
Berlinale #2 (2017)
The festival has officially ended but my coverage is far from over. In case you missed it, I wrote a short piece at the outset of the festival […]
Berlinale #1 (2017)
I wrote a short hype piece about some big-name titles in preparation for the fest. It went online on Sunday and you can check it out over at I […]
Letterboxd Blurbs & Upcoming Berlinale
If you’re into movies and not yet on letterboxd, I highly recommend it. The site is a great way to keep a diary, rate, and review what you […]
Film Fest Gent: Locating Empathy
After my second visit to Film Fest Gent in October, I wrote an article over at Photogenie’s new home on the Cinea website about two documentaries I quite liked: In […]