I’ve got 2 new songs, which you can listen to by hitting play below: [bandcamp width=100% height=120 album=2031015608 size=large bgcol=333333 linkcol=4ec5ec tracklist=false artwork=small] If you decide you’d like […]
Berlinale #6: Eight Hours Don’t Make A Day (dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
“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 […]
Classic Brian: Live Take-away show
Fresh off the heels of yesterday’s Tiny Desk submission featuring a live performance by Open/Honest (Felix Rodriguez) out of Norman, Oklahoma, I’ve got a new take-away show featuring […]