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Jordan Cronk

Ready to Wear

By Jordan Cronk
January 3, 2018
Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Carne y Arena turns the suffering of border crossings into a consumable VR experience

Interview: Ben Russell

By Jordan Cronk
October 4, 2017
Live from the crevasse: the director of Good Luck discusses his film from his Los Angeles home, as it plays

Interview: Serge Bozon

By Jordan Cronk
September 29, 2017
Comédie-Française: the Mrs. Hyde director explains how he puts a spin on the realities of teaching and racial disparities in the Parisian suburbs

Festivals: Locarno 2017

By Jordan Cronk
September 1, 2017
No ego: the diverse offerings at the fest’s 70th edition offered an even playing field

Interview: Hong Sangsoo

By Jordan Cronk
July 1, 2017
Another round: the idiosyncratic and increasingly prolific Korean filmmaker discusses his two films at Cannes this year, Claire’s Camera and The Day After

Cannes Interview: Sergei Loznitsa

By Jordan Cronk
May 31, 2017
Russian (narrative) arc: the director of My Joy discusses the political allegories of his latest, A Gentle Creature

Interview: Valeska Grisebach

By Jordan Cronk
May 23, 2017
True Bulgarian West: the director of Western discusses her return to filmmaking after an 11-year absence

Review: Harmonium

By Jordan Cronk
May 3, 2017
(Koji Fukada, Japan/France, 
Film Movement, Opens June 16)

Interview: Davi Pretto

By Jordan Cronk
May 3, 2017
Regional vocabularies: the Brazilian director of Rifle discusses his semi-fictionalized approach to politics and trauma

Interview: Angela Schanelec

By Jordan Cronk
January 3, 2017
Time-space continuum: the director of bifurcated drama The Dreamed Path discusses the role poetry, books, and dogs play in her project of contingent enigmas

Short Takes: Disorder

By Jordan Cronk
July 5, 2016
(Alice Winocour, France/Belgium, 2015)

Cannes Interview: Albert Serra

By Jordan Cronk
May 22, 2016
The story of His Majesty's death: Jean-Pierre Léaud embodies the passing of a monarch and an era in The Death of Louis XIV

Cannes Interview: Bruno Dumont

By Jordan Cronk
May 16, 2016
Holiday in the sun: the Li'l Quinquin director returns with Slack Bay, an eccentric yarn

Interview: Sean Baker

By Jordan Cronk
July 8, 2015
The method: the director of Tangerine and Starlet discusses his collaborative approach to crafting stories with his actors and the unseen side of L.A.