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Forrest Cardamenis

Forrest Cardamenis is a critic and film programmer living in Queens, New York. He received an M.A. in Film Studies from New York University, and has written for MUBI Notebook, The Brooklyn Rail, and The Village Voice, among others. Find him on Twitter.

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Different Hong Kong Generations Come Together in Protest Reenactments

by Forrest Cardamenis July 26, 2022July 26, 2022

Blending documentary and reenactment, director Chan Tze-woon compares and contrasts contemporary and historical activist movements.

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The Cinematic Time Loops of Shahram Mokri

by Forrest Cardamenis June 26, 2022June 24, 2022

A new box set of four of the Iranian director’s features offers a great opportunity to get to know his singular style.

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Denzel Washington Stars in a New Black-and-White Macbeth

by Forrest Cardamenis December 22, 2021December 22, 2021

Working for the first time without his brother Ethan, Coen’s film adaptation, featuring Denzel Washington as Macbeth, embraces the text with unusual faithfulness.

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The Complete Works of Influential Experimental Filmmaker Michael Snow Come to New York

by Forrest Cardamenis December 1, 2021December 2, 2021

Anthology Film Archives’ complete retrospective of the influential Canadian experimental filmmaker includes many exceptionally rare titles.

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The Horror and Humor of Romania’s Dictatorship

by Forrest Cardamenis November 15, 2021November 15, 2021

In the early 1980s, a teenager who tagged some anti-government graffiti was crushed by the state. Radu Jude’s fiction/documentary hybrid Uppercase Print tells his story with a mix of horror and dark humor.

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Who’s Getting Rich Off of Kids Getting Killed?

by Forrest Cardamenis October 26, 2021November 8, 2021

Todd Chandler’s documentary Bulletproof looks at the many people monetizing the societal rot of school shootings.

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The Velvet Underground Brings the New York of the ’60s Back to Life

by Forrest Cardamenis October 13, 2021October 21, 2021

With dense split-screen use of period artifacts and a killer Velvets soundtrack, Todd Haynes’s documentary is a loving tribute to his favorite band.

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What is the Point of HBO’s Remake of Ingmar Bergman’s Scenes from a Marriage?

by Forrest Cardamenis October 5, 2021October 5, 2021

This update brings the star power of Jessica Chastain and Oscar Isaac, but can’t match the emotional intensity of the original.

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An Eight-Hour Film Captures the Rhythms of Farming Life in Rural Japan

by Forrest Cardamenis July 15, 2021July 15, 2021

The Works and Days is a quiet epic, using its length to capture the rhythms of rural life and its desecration by urbanization better than any conventional movie could.

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Beth B on No Wave, Lydia Lunch, and “Speaking the Unspeakable”

by Forrest Cardamenis July 1, 2021July 2, 2021

“You don’t need corporate validation or Hollywood validation to do something,” the pioneering No Wave filmmaker explains.

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Theo Anthony on How the History of Cinema Led to the Modern Surveillance State

by Forrest Cardamenis June 9, 2021June 9, 2021

The filmmaker talks to Hyperallergic about his documentary All Light, Everywhere and incorporating theory into his practice.

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Southeast Asian Cinema Takes Hollywood Sci-Fi in New Directions

by Forrest Cardamenis February 10, 2020

Directors Lav Diaz, Mattie Do, and Minh Quý Truong have built off Hollywood’s tropes in unexpected ways in their science fiction films.

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