“Instead of offering closeted conservative condemnation, or liberal handwringing and outsized guilt, Massadian has been making a cinema of the ‘animal’ intensities and lucidity of childhood and the often debilitating growing pains of young adulthood.”
Essay: There’s no democracy of hands but there are many hands in a democracy: ‘City Hall’ (2020) and ‘Her Socialist Smile’ (2020)
To look at the design and flaws of American politics and democracy, Wiseman chooses an entire city and its system as his focal point. Gianvito, on the other hand, chooses a single individual, whose life nevertheless encapsulated a tumultuous early 20th century.
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.
Compilation: Dogme Year Zero
Hello and welcome to the first-ever crossover episode between Ultra Dogme and Cinema Year Zero.
Dogme Year Zero: Microphones in 2020
by Ruairí McCann Knowing no one understands these songs,I try to sing them clearer.Even though no one has ever asked:”What does Mount Eerie mean?”I have tried to repeatedly […]
Blu Review: ‘Goodbye, Dragon Inn’ (2003) dir. Tsai Ming-liang (Second Run)
by Ruairí McCann In a Taipei caught under a thick canopy of rain, an old late night movie theatre serves as a symbolic shelter. It is the last […]
Review: ‘Days’ (2020, dir. Tsai Ming-liang) – London Film Festival
by Ruairí McCann Near the end of Tsai Ming-liang’s film Afternoon (2015) — a conversation, filmed across 134 minutes and 4 shots, between Tsai and his muse Lee […]
Review: ‘Time’ (2020, dir. Garrett Bradley) – London Film Festival
Time (2020) is Garrett Bradley’s second feature and a concept which is explained from manifold points of view and forms of expression.