Your Top 10 List Makes Me Want to Puke
It wouldn’t be awards season if the leading voices of Film Twitter – and TV Twitter, Book Twitter, Podcast Twitter, and Food Twitter – weren’t aflutter about the “best” and […]
Category Archives: Essays
Brimstone & Glory (2017) Film Review
Directed by: Viktor Jakovleski Produced by: Dan Janvey, Elizabeth Lodge Stepp, Kellen Quinn, Affonso Gonçalves, Benh Zeitlin, Casey Coleman, Antonio “Tonitzin” Gomez, Viktor Jakovleski, Erdem Karaham Executive Produced by: Lisa […]
SFIFF60: Jem Cohen’s “World Without End (No Reported Incidents)” is a Coldly Handsome Abstraction
Directed, Written, Cinematography, and Edited by: Jem Cohen Produced by: Gravity Hill, Estuary 2016, METAL Executive Produced by: Gareth Evans Official Selection of the 2016 San Francisco International Film Festival […]
Бетмен Rises: Almost Holy, the Completist Ethic, and the Mythos of Terrence Malick
Almost Holy [2016] Directed, Written, and Edited by: Steve Hoover Featuring: Pastor Gennadiy Mokhnenko Produced by: Danny Yourd Executive Produced by: Kathy Dziubek, Nicolas Gonda, Michael Killen, Jim Kreitzburg, Terrence […]
“Jam Session: Notes on Music Biography” – Desert of the Real #2
The cinematic music biography always finds itself in high demand. It is hard to think of a documentary subject that could be more commercially reliable (outside of its cousin, the […]
“Border Logic: Four Windows into the Mexican Drug War” – Desert of the Real #1
Ed. Note: This is the introductory piece in a nascent essay column, Desert of the Real, by Ben Altenberg. Like it? Hate it? Reach out to the author through the […]
Shepard & Dark (2012) Film Review
What: Film Review Directed by: Treva Wurmfeld Produced by: Amy Hobby Edited by: Sandra Adair Featuring: Sam Shepard, Johnny Dark Running Time (in min.): 92 minutes Language: English Rating: Not […]