How Coppola and Faulkner Made Art from Apocalypse
Coppola’s Apocalypse Now and Faulkner’s “The Bear” deliberately confuse and disquiet our comprehension of slavery’s traumatic past.
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David Lynch Nailed and Skewered Us
On the passing of legendary director David Lynch, we share five films that nailed us in our hearts and guts and skewered us to our soft, squishy, emotional cores.
Workplace Drama ‘Severance’ Enhances Performance and Hits High Targets
Workplace drama Severance Season 2 enhances performance by moving sideways from work ethics to reach the complicated hearts of its protagonists.
The Best Film of 2024
Our Best Film of 2024 commemorates intriguing films, emerging voices and celebrated doyens searching for stranger narratives and new angles on existing legends.
‘Fight Club’ Still Serves as an Odyssey of Alienation and Brotherhood
Fight Club conveyed Gen X men’s frustration, leading to paramilitary militia groups and Promise Keepers. It lends itself to reinterpretation to this day.
‘La Cérémonie’ Explores Social Class Struggles with Chilling Exactitude
Filmed under a cool glass of calm and enwrapped in an airy atmosphere, La Cérémonie makes judicious use of its setting to starkly contrast its warring classes.
The Final Season of Genre-Twisting ‘Barry’ Nails Down Its Tricky Legacy
The final season of Barry irreparably breaks the mold of the tragicomedy genre and unflinchingly severs the umbilical cord between the audience and the protagonist(s).
Psychological Drama God’s Creatures Renders the Maternal Toxic
Like pride before a fall, the psychological drama God’s Creatures critiques the sentimentality of blood and the tribal mindset of loyalty above conscience.
In Two Minds: Robert Altman’s ‘Images’ Essays the Terrors of Schizophrenia
Altman’s Images is a complex, haunting, and always disturbing film about the slow realization that one’s sanity is at stake.
Confronting Evil, Determinism, and Death in ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’
Exploring the darker core of Frank Capra’s Christmas classic It’s a Wonderful Life reveals just what is so wonderful about life.
Love and Claustrophobia in ‘The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant’
Fassbinder’s stifling drama about the sufferings of dependence,The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant, is high camp, where the sparks fly with radiant colours.
‘The Conformist’ Is a Political Thriller Washed in the Hues of a Thousand Psychosexual Dreams
Bernardo Bertolucci’s magnificent drama The Conformist bridges the supreme elegance of the jazz age with Euro mod-chic.