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Jordan Cronk

Cannes 2019: Preview I

By Jordan Cronk
May 7, 2019
Avant le déluge: our first overview of this year‘s offerings, including films by the Dardenne Brothers, Lav Diaz, and Pedro Almodóvar

Interview: Nina Menkes

By Jordan Cronk
April 25, 2019
Wheel of fortune: The 1991 Queen of Diamonds, at BAM April 26, proceeds in a deceptively complex, elliptical fashion

Interview: Miko Revereza

By Jordan Cronk
April 18, 2019
Running on empty: No Data Plan frames a three-day train journey as a microcosm of the immigrant experience

Overnight to Distant Cities

By Jordan Cronk
April 9, 2019
With Long Day’s Journey Into Night, in theaters April 12, Bi Gan returns to his hometown through an elaborate romance of dreams and memories

Dispatch: Qumra 2019

By Jordan Cronk
April 8, 2019
New age: Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Alice Rohrwacher, and VR and its discontents at the Doha Film Institute's industry summit in Qatar

Interview: Sofia Bohdanowicz & Deragh Campbell

By Jordan Cronk
March 19, 2019
It's relative: the directors of MS Slavic 7 on the use of biography and the strange experience of playing a version of your director on screen

Berlinale 2019 Dispatch

By Jordan Cronk
March 4, 2019
State of transition: this year's highlights point toward a welcome renewal for the venerable festival

Rotterdam 2019 Dispatch

By Jordan Cronk
February 21, 2019
"I’m not a filmmaker. I just made a film": new films from José Celestino Campusano, Jang Woojin, and Romina Paula highlight the festival

Interview: Nëil Beloufa

By Jordan Cronk
January 9, 2019
Not here to make friends: the director of Occidental talks about using the lurid customs of reality television to create new art

Interview: Jodie Mack

By Jordan Cronk
September 7, 2018
Pattern recognition: oh, the places you’ll go with the director of a handmade fabric fantasia on film

Locarno Interview: Virgil Vernier

By Jordan Cronk
August 27, 2018
Utopia is nowhere: the French filmmaker haunts another location with fragmentary character portraits and spiritual anomie in the air

Interview: Yann Gonzalez

By Jordan Cronk
June 14, 2018
Adult entertainment: the French filmmaker, winner of the Prix Jean Vigo, discusses his story set in the gay porn industry when film was still king

Cannes Interview: Ryusuke Hamaguchi

By Jordan Cronk
May 23, 2018
It's the loneliest number since the number one: the Japanese director of Asako I & II follows a young woman's doubled romance to the bittersweet end

Cannes Interview: Gabriel Abrantes & Daniel Schmidt

By Jordan Cronk
May 17, 2018
Puppy love: the co-directors of post-postmodern digital satire Diamantino—now screening in NYFF—probe desire, family, and football

Interview: Ruth Beckermann

By Jordan Cronk
April 9, 2018
Media blitz: the director/cameraperson of The Waldheim Waltz revisits the story of the disgraced Austrian politician using contemporary footage

Berlin Interview: Lav Diaz

By Jordan Cronk
March 26, 2018
The singing detectives: the surrealist Season of the Devil takes on the horrors of a corrupt police state

Interview: Christian Petzold

By Jordan Cronk
February 28, 2018
Regrettably timeless: the filmmaker’s latest, Transit, shows the stark parallels between the Holocaust and the European refugee crisis

Festivals: Rotterdam 2018

By Jordan Cronk
February 21, 2018
It’s complicated: can this early champion of the likes of Lav Diaz and Carlos Reygadas recover its former glories?

The Year in Experimental Film

By Jordan Cronk
January 4, 2018
No boundaries: considering some of 2017's most thoughtful entries in avant-garde film

Interview: Thomas Arslan

By Jordan Cronk
January 3, 2018
Country life: the Berlin Schooler and director of Bright Nights discusses creating characters out of places