Chloe Lizotte

Pyramid Scheme

October 10, 2022

Leaky ship: Ruben Östlund’s Triangle of Sadness is high on rhetorical acrobatics but lacks the humanist curiosity of his earlier films

Sundance Dispatch #1: The Shorts Program

By Chloe Lizotte

January 31, 2022

Give them a hand: this year’s shorts selection featured character-driven indies and a lively variety of experiential docs

Review: Hail the New Puritan

By Chloe Lizotte

November 1, 2021

Salem’s just up the road: Charles Atlas’s 1986 fictionalized doc celebrates “the exuberant anarchy of limbs moving through space.”

The Big Screen: Tigers Are Not Afraid

By Chloe Lizotte

August 29, 2019

Unsentimental resilience makes storytelling both a weapon and a shield for the orphaned children in Issa López’s blend of horror and magical realism

Short Take: The Art of Self-Defense

By Chloe Lizotte

July 9, 2019

Riley Stearns strives for, but fails to achieve, a dark comedy intoned in Yorgos Lanthimos deadpan

Short Take: Suburban Birds

By Chloe Lizotte

April 4, 2019

Concrete jungle: in Qiu Sheng’s tale of urban life, bureaucracy behaves like a cosmic force of nature

Interview: Mark Jenkin

By Chloe Lizotte

March 27, 2019

Fresh catch: the rough-hewn Bait keenly portrays a displaced and reconfigured working-class community in coastal Britain

News to Me: Michael Almereyda, Claire Simon, Albert Serra

By Chloe Lizotte

August 7, 2018

Electric dreams: Michael Almereyda tackles Tesla, plus projects from Claire Simon, Albert Serra, and Pablo Larraín

News to Me: Kirsten Johnson, João Pedro Rodrigues, Josephine Decker

By Chloe Lizotte

July 30, 2018

Death of the father: the director of Cameraperson returns with a fascinating project, plus news from Venice, João Pedro Rodrigues, and MoviePass

News to Me: Martín Rejtman, Jonathan Glazer, Amma Asante

By Chloe Lizotte

July 24, 2018

Left coast: Martin Rejtman returns, Jonathan Glazer reflects on atrocity, Amma Asante’s next film, and Boots Riley’s projects

News to Me: Angela Schanelec, Jim Jarmusch, Ilya Khrzhanovsky

By Chloe Lizotte

July 16, 2018

Missing person report: Schanelec’s next film, Jarmusch undead again and loving it, and world cinema by Ilya Khrzhanovsky

News to Me: Debra Granik, Mia Hansen-Løve, Claude Lanzmann

By Chloe Lizotte

July 9, 2018

Back into the wild: Debra Granik on her next documentary, upcoming films by Mia Hansen-Løve and Oscar-nominee Feras Fayyad, and more

News to Me: Lizzie Borden, Greta Gerwig, Ryuichi Sakamoto

By Chloe Lizotte

July 2, 2018

American revolutions: Lizzie Borden on Born in Flames, upcoming films by Raoul Peck and Céline Sciamma, and more

News to Me: Pedro Almodóvar, Julia Ducournau, Taika Waititi

By Chloe Lizotte

June 25, 2018

The director's chair: Almodóvar's next movie imagines a filmmaker reflecting on his life, Gianfranco Rosi goes to work, and more

News to Me: James Ivory, Alexander Payne, Werner Herzog

By Chloe Lizotte

June 18, 2018

Charity begins at home: James Ivory on adapting Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Werner Herzog directs for TV, and Keith Carradine chats

News to Me: Ari Aster, Park Chan-wook, Kimberly Peirce

By Chloe Lizotte

June 11, 2018

It takes a village: Hereditary director Ari Aster details his next project, Kimberly Peirce proceeds with This Is Jane, and we commemorate Kira Muratova

Short Takes: Beast

By Chloe Lizotte

May 1, 2018

(Michael Pearce, UK, Roadside Attractions & 30West, Opening May 11)

Review: Lean on Pete

By Chloe Lizotte

March 5, 2018

(Andrew Haigh, USA, A24, Opening March 30)

Short Take: Strange Weather

By Chloe Lizotte

July 3, 2017

(Katherine Dieckmann, USA, Brainstorm Media, Opens July 28)

Interview: William Oldroyd

By Chloe Lizotte

July 3, 2017

It’s not Shakespeare: the director of Lady Macbeth discusses his Dutch-master-influenced adaptation of Nikolai Leskov’s novella