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Unpacking Mentorship and Masculinity in Two Portraits of Fatherhood
Screening as part of BAM's annual "Contemporary Arab Cinema" showcase, Of Fathers and Sons and Fatwa offer starkly different meditations on the radicalization of young men.
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Remembering Toni Morrison Through Film
To help me parse this year's film Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am, I had a conversation with Steven G. Fullwood, an archivist, editor, publisher, and scholar, to discuss the documentary's approach in telling the phenomenal author's story.
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Harsh Lessons From Brazil's So-Called “Helpless”
Bacurau, a ferociously angry film, straddles the thriller and the social drama, invoking the history of resistance to state violence in the Brazilian sertão.
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How the Decade’s Best Documentaries Chart Radical Changes in Filmmaking
The 2010s were a seismic time for nonfiction filmmaking. Director Robert Greene considers how the craft has evolved, and continues to evolve.
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When Stranger Fictions Reveal More Prescient Truths
In eschewing claims to an unmediated reality, Synonyms reveals truths about French society often masked by reality itself, while Young Ahmed obscures crucial systemic injustices in Belgium under the guise of realism.
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An Unearthed Cinematic Time Capsule of New York Hustle and Bustle
Film poet Manfred Kirchheimer shows off beautiful restored footage he shot in NYC from 1958 to 1960 in Free Time.
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The Horrors of Coming of Age
In his latest film, Zombi Child, Bertrand Bonello complements his usual emphasis on aesthetics with an insightful critique of colonialism and the contradictions of liberalism.
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A Sly Noir Film Offers a Critique of Chinese Capitalism
The Wild Goose Lake is the latest Chinese crime film to smuggle a critique of the country's inequality, surveillance, and the police state under the guise of genre.
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Anime's Hostile Visions of the Future
Anime's Human Machines at the Barbican Centre offers a variety of perspectives on humanity, technology, and whether the soul can exist between machines and humans.
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The Wonders and Terrors of Humanity's Impact on Earth
Featuring stunning landscape photography, the documentary Anthropocene surveys a new era of human-driven geology.
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A New Matthew Barney Film Retells an Ancient Myth in the American Wilds
Hyperallergic has the exclusive premiere of the theatrical trailer for Redoubt, in which the goddess Diana becomes a modern hunter.
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A 3D Experience Recreates Merce Cunningham’s Most Famous Dances
On the centennial of the legendary dancer and choreographer's birth, the documentary Cunningham pays tribute to his work and philosophy.