The destruction of a building: more important than the brief moment of the blast are the hours leading up to the detonation.
“But I’m a Nice Dude, With Some Nice Dreams” – The Weeknd’s ‘House of Balloons’ Turns 10
It’s important to remember that The Weeknd and House of Balloons were first.
Review: ‘Come Here’ (2021) dir. by Anocha Suwichakornpong
“Inherent in the conditions under which it was made, and in it’s strange skirting and shifts there’s an artist testing out several ideas in purposeful denial of a thesis and in a game of constant, formal and spiritual incipience.”
Blu Review: ‘How You Live Your Story – Selected works by Kevin Jerome Everson’ (Second Run)
by MLP Last fall, Second Run released a 2-disc blu-ray set featuring 8.6 hours of work by American artist-filmmaker Kevin Jerome Everson, titled ‘How You Live Your Story’. […]
On Catching Glimpses…
Welcome to the future. We ride on the last of many train cars, which is the present, traveling forward through the past, or the future. In our daily life the past may as well be the future.
Who’s Afraid of Ideology? – on ‘The Year Before the War’ (2021, dir. Dāvis Sīmanis)
Dāvis Sīmanis’ The Year Before the War, which premiered in the Big Screen Competition section of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) in February, has all the potential to be one of the great festival hits of the year.
Review: ‘Preparations to be Together for an Unknown Period of Time’ (2020, dir. Lili Horvát)
Judging by its title, Hungary’s submission for the Oscars may sound mechanical and stiff, but director Lili Horvát’s second feature is anything but.
Diary: Fondly Remembering Festivals
Rounding up a well-overdue collection of memories from this year’s IFFR, Berlinale, and online festivals.
3 Songs that Got Us Through the Year
As the title suggests, this list collects our contributors’ 3 songs that got them through this hell-year.