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A Documentary Tracks the Competitive Theatrics of John McEnroe
A new documentary made up solely of footage of the tennis star shot in 1984 is a meditation on the psycho-dramatics of sports and a pure celebration of the body in motion.
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A Portrait of Philosopher Donna Haraway as an Impassioned Storyteller
A documentary about the canonic thinker, shot mostly in her home office, seems straightforward at first, then jellyfish start shimmering across the screen.
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An Artist Excavates the Neglected Histories of a Gentrifying Neighborhood in Detroit
Nicole MacDonald’s Last Days of Chinatown hones in on the displacement of the poor and “unimportant” people to accommodate the march of progress in Detroit.
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A Film Tries to Make a Pioneering Feminist Intellectual More Than Just a Muse
Lou Andreas-Salomé — a novelist, essayist, and psychoanalyst who won the hearts of Freud, Nietzsche, and Rilke — led an almost infinitely varied life.
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Visions of Joan of Arc as a Dancing, Singing, Head-Banging Kid
French director Bruno Dumont's latest, a ponderous experimental musical about Joan of Arc's childhood, celebrates the innocence and banality of a young saint’s life.
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Monstrous and Touching Stories Within Stories
Fritz Böhm’s debut film Wildling is cloaked in mystery, dark and dank, occasionally bloody, sometimes shocking, and fantastically folkloric.
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A Film Shows a Poignant Vision of Black Life in Hale County, Alabama
In his documentary Hale County This Morning, This Evening, RaMell Ross captures the lives of that county's black residents in beautiful and fragmentary complexity.
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A Depraved Classic of Adult Anime Returns to the Big Screen
Originally released in the US in 1993 to much puzzlement and shock, a rare 35mm print of Urotsukidōji: Legend of the Overfiend will screen at Nitehawk.
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The Strange and Artful Worlds of A Wrinkle in Time
Ava DuVernay's sci-fi blockbuster follows its characters from a verdant world right out of a Hudson River School painting to a glowing space worthy of James Turrell.
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Style Transcends Story in Winter Brothers, a Film Set in a Limestone Mine
Hlynur Pálmason’s movie injects some fresh blood into the sometimes moribund state of cinema.
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Wes Anderson's Isle of Dogs Has Bark But Lacks Bite
In a film set in futuristic Japan, Wes Anderson and his collaborators try to achieve more than cultural appropriation, with mixed results.
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Marion Cotillard and Charlotte Gainsbourg Spar in a Haunting Love Triangle
French filmmaker Arnaud Desplechin's latest, Ismael's Ghosts, offers a nuanced look at how women in mid-life grapple with fear and loneliness.