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I want you to picture this: the glamour of 1920s Berlin, fancy clothes, a totally different era from which a mysterious figure drifts through the nightlife, embodying art and enigma. I bet you’re curious about who that might be, right? Our guest is not merely a performer, but a time-traveler. […]
There’s a crooked kind of beauty in watching a music festival through the eyes of someone who feels absolutely nothing when sound swells around them. “In a World That Won’t Stop Singing,” Electric Castle’s documentary on musical anhedonia, steps away from melodrama and oversized explanations. It lets the subject breathe […]
How Aim‑ei Polpitak crafts a tender meditation on creativity, connection, and feminine interiority In the slow hush of a Bangkok evening, somewhere between fluorescent hallway lights and the fading glow of a blank page, “Concetta” begins, not with noise, but with a whisper. Aim‑ei Polpitak’s latest feature is not here […]
Thirty-five years after the Romanian Revolution, many questions remain. An elaborate cinematic concert based on the documentary “Revolutia Nevazuta” (The Unseen Revolution) treated wounds as it was presented in the premiere as part of the Timișoara Community Gala 2023. Its ability to transport feelings through time was primarily due to the brilliance […]
‘Where Does a Body End?’ is an intimate portrait of the band SWANS, from their roots as a brutal, confrontational post-punk band that emerged from the same early 1980s era NYC that gave us Sonic Youth (and, somehow, Madonna) through their ill-fated bid at mainstream success in the 90s indie-rock gold rush, […]
Drawing inspiration from a multitude of genres including pop, indie, or rock’n’roll, this dreamy song opens up gently and immediately showcases Edith’s and Frank’s vivid imagery. Separately, this song is an enduring and ever-evolving link between life and death, between relationships, or one state of mind and another. ‘Sufletu’i Mai […]
What’s your relationship to femininity? Yago Hunt-Laudi is a multi-disciplinary editor and director specializing in brand imagery and filming. Bouncing between Europe and the United States, Yago worked for the Manhattan-based creative agency Matte Projects as an Editor and Creative. “Sex work. The phrase evokes so much emotion, yet we understand […]
MGM and United Artists Releasing have released the trailer for “Licorice Pizza”, the first film from Oscar-nominated writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson’s since 2017’s “Phantom Thread”. Set in 1973 in the same locale as Anderson’s “Boogie Nights”, “Magnolia”, and “Punch Drunk Love”, the new pic stars Alana Haim from the all-sister rock band Haim and Philip Seymour […]
Based on a non-fiction book by Judith C. Brown, “Benedetta” is the latest motion picture from Dutch filmmaker Paul Verhoeven. It focuses on the years in which Benedetta rose to the summit of the Theatine convent in Tuscany, Italy. In the film, premiering at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival, nuns […]
The prolific Japanese writer and director Sion Sono, ‘Bacurau’ co-director Kleber Mendonça Filho, ‘Evolution’ helmer Lucile Hadzihalilovic, ‘The Wild Boys’ director Bertrand Mandico, and the duo of Helene Cattet and Bruno Forzani (‘Let the Corpses Tan’) have teamed together for a film that features five poetic visions of sexual ecstasy. With the title of ‘Shining Sex’, Screen Daily reports […]