Features

A Floating Island

By Genevieve Yue

February 10, 2025

Pushing hands: In Ang Lee’s films, what seems to be about culture is a condition of the family, and vice versa

Mining Possibility: The 1983 Bolivian Miners’ Film Workshop

By Lucia Ahrensdorf

January 21, 2025

Life underground: how a notorious Nazi’s extradition from Bolivia gave rise to a radical film project in a mining town

What’s In the Box?

By Chris Shields & Sarah Fensom

January 13, 2025

Look again: boutique DVD and Blu-ray labels like Fun City Editions, Arbelos Films, and Vinegar Syndrome play a crucial role in sustaining canon-flouting cinema

Dream Baby Dream

By Garon Scott

January 13, 2025

Signed, sealed, delivered: Robert Eggers‘s Nosferatu projects a corrupted self-image of empire

Prison Movie Wives’ Black Heart Movie Diary: Best of 2024

By Sara Kielly, Courtney McDonell, and Jessica Sims

January 6, 2025

For old acquaintance: three incarcerated critics review the best films they saw this year

Control Issues

By Julia Gunnison

December 2, 2024

Closed city: Neo Sora‘s Happyend and Lilith Kraxner and Milena Czernovsky‘s bluish present visions of urban quiet

Watering the Grassroots: Film Fest Knox

By Mark Asch

December 2, 2024

Democratic vistas: a new Knoxville, Tennessee–based festival champions regional American cinema

Touch Visit: 2024 Sing Sing Film Festival

By Pooja Rangan

November 25, 2024

Access points: the first-ever documentary showcase held within a U.S. prison included a slate of competing films judged by an incarcerated jury

Sea of Love

By Aaron M. Kinzer

November 25, 2024

Stand by me: Daughters is a heartbreaking, years-in-the-making documentary exploring the complex relationship between incarcerated fathers and their daughters

How to Do Things with Words

By Jawni Han

November 18, 2024

Translation games: Hong Sangsoo's A Traveler's Needs explores how communication across languages can be both obfuscating and revelatory