My first dispatch from the 2023 Sundance Film Festival includes capsule reviews of Rachel Lambert’s Sometimes I Think About Dying, Rachel Zlotowski’s Other People’s Children, Anton Corbijn’s Squaring The Circle (The Story Of Hipgnosis) and Patricia Ortega’s Mamacruz.

“A wonderful movie about two ordinary people trying to do their best to muddle through everyday circumstances, with the humane acknowledgement that such things are tougher on some folks than others and an opportunity for transcendence in our quietest moments. Causeway is the kind of film we come to festivals like IFFBoston to see.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 10/25/2022

My second dispatch from the 60th annual New York Film Festival includes capsule reviews of Charlotte Wells’ Aftersun, Maria Schrader’s She Said and Park Chan-wook’s Decision To Leave.

My first dispatch from the 60th annual New York Film Festival contains capsule reviews of Claire Denis’ Stars At Noon, Martin Scorsese and David Tedeschi’s Personality Crisis: One Night Only and Ruben Östlund’s Triangle Of Sadness.

“The large format film provides a crispness and clarity impossible to replicate via hard drives with zeroes and ones. Current top-of-the-line digital cinema projection boasts 4K resolution, and while there’s admittedly an apples-to-oranges aspect in comparing pixels to film grain, 70mm presentation is generally estimated to be around the equivalent of 18K.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 06/07/2022

“’When you’re standing backstage at Somerville One and something happens onscreen that makes the whole audience gasp or scream, that’s a really thrilling moment for a filmmaker,’ Tamm enthuses. ‘One of the things IFFBoston is known for among filmmakers is that we have really good audiences. Bringing them back is what I’m most excited about.’” – WBUR’s The ARTery, 04/25/2022

“The ‘annual sensory bacchanalia from beyond the mainstream’ is back at the Brattle Theatre, once again bringing the wildest, weirdest and most outré offerings to a loyal area audience with nerves (and stomachs) of steel. McControversy promises that ‘all the extreme isolation and paranoia of the past two years’ will be well-represented in the program.” – WBUR’s The ARTery, 03/21/2022

My fifth dispatch from the 2022 Sundance Film Festival includes capsule reviews of John Patton Ford’s Emily The Criminal, Juan Pablo González‘s Dos Estaciones, Jamie Dack’s Palm Trees And Power Lines and Tig Notaro & Stephanie Allynne’s Am I OK?

My fourth dispatch from the 2022 Sundance Film Festival includes capsule reviews of Cooper Raiff’s Cha Cha Real Smooth, Rachel Lears’ To The End, Reid Davenport’s I Didn’t See You There and Nina Menkes’ Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power.

My third dispatch from the 2022 Sundance Film Festival includes capsule reviews of Phyllis Nagy’s Call Jane, Lena Dunham’s Sharp Stick, Monia Chokri’s Babysitter and Sophie Hyde’s Good Luck To You, Leo Grande.