Sandra Jones Cropsey’s Private Dancer, recipient of Best Script at the Nashville Independent Filmmakers Festival, is a work that situates itself within a modest dramatic frame—a single bar, a handful of
A slow vertical pressure works through Louise Hémon’s The Girl In The Snow, premiering at this year’s Director’s Fortnight at Cannes
What’s more intimate than telling a stranger your trauma soon after meeting them? Sexual intercourse soon after meeting them, possibly. And in the successfully alluring short film An Advert For
New York, New York: the city so nice, they named it twice. “The world is a shithole.” The phrase so bleak, they also said it twice to open Just The Worst
Sometimes when your family doesn’t accept you, you can go out and make yourself a new better one. Stoned for Christmas, an animated short from Talking Cat Productions written and directed
When you’re committing an act of vengeance, you really hope that final triumph will be the cherry on top to set everything right. But if movies and TV are to
Every so often, a film will be released that is essentially a collection of short films. In film school, we only watched Martin Scorcese’s “Life Lessons” from New York Stories. Sometimes,
From this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, comes The Party’s Over (Spanish: Se acabó la fiesta).This movie has many variations on its title. I’ve also seen The Party Is Over,
My God is the opening of Polvo Seran (showing at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, English: “They Will Be Dust”) dazzling! I watched a screener so I was able
From out of the sea and this year’s Venice Biennale, comes writer and director Zoey Martinson’s whimsical comedy The Fisherman. Atta (Ricky Adelayitar) is a traditional Ghanaian fisherman struggling against