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.
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SUNDANCE 2022 PART THREE: CALL JANE, SHARP STICK, BABYSITTER, GOOD LUCK TO YOU, LEO GRANDE
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.
Continue readingSUNDANCE 2022 PART TWO: AFTER YANG, NOTHING COMPARES, SPEAK NO EVIL, MASTER
My second dispatch from the 2022 Sundance Film Festival includes capsule reviews of Kogonada’s After Yang, Kathryn Ferguson’s Nothing Compares, Christian Tafdrup’s Speak No Evil and Mariama Diallo‘s Master.
Continue readingSUNDANCE 2022 PART ONE: WHEN YOU FINISH SAVING THE WORLD, EMERGENCY, LA GUERRA CIVIL, THE INCREDIBLY TRUE ADVENTURE OF TWO GIRLS IN LOVE
My first dispatch from the 2022 Sundance Film Festival includes capsule reviews of Jesse Eisenberg’s When You Finish Saving The World, Carey Williams’ Emergency, Eva Longoria Bastón’s La Guerra Civil and Maria Maggenti’s The Incredibly True Adventure Of Two Girls In Love.
Continue readingIFFBOSTON FALL FOCUS 2021
“This week’s IFFBoston Fall Focus is a welcome return to the organization’s original mission: gathering the community together to share the experience of seeing movies with one another in the area’s historic independent venues. And as always, they’ve put together an enticing lineup of films featuring everything from porn stars to Princess Diana.” – WBUR’s The ARTery, 10/19/2021
NYFF59 PART THREE: THE POWER OF THE DOG, VORTEX, PARALLEL MOTHERS
My third dispatch from the 59th New York Film Festival includes capsule reviews of Jane Campion’s The Power Of The Dog, Gaspar Noé’s Vortex and Pedro Almodóvar’s Parallel Mothers.
Continue readingNYFF59 PART TWO: WHEEL OF FORTUNE AND FANTASY, THE FRENCH DISPATCH, RED ROCKET
My second dispatch from the 59th New York Film Festival includes capsule reviews of Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s Wheel Of Fortune And Fantasy, Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch and Sean Baker’s Red Rocket.
Continue readingNYFF59 PART ONE: BENEDETTA, TITANE, SONGS FOR DRELLA
My first dispatch from the 59th New York Film Festival includes capsule reviews of Paul Verhoeven’s Benedetta, Julia Ducournau’s Titane and Ed Lachman’s Songs For Drella.
Continue readingTRIBECA 2021: THE KIDS, ITALIAN STUDIES, LARRY FLYNT FOR PRESIDENT
A quick dispatch from the 2021 Tribeca Festival containing capsule reviews of Eddie Martin’s The Kids, Adam Leon’s Italian Studies and Nadia Szold’s Larry Flynt For President.
Continue readingIFFBOSTON 2021 VIRTUAL Q&A: STRAWBERRY MANSION’S ALBERT BIRNEY AND KENTUCKER AUDLEY
Had a great time talking to Strawberry Mansion directors Albert Birney and Kentucker Audley in this virtual Q&A for the Independent Film Festival Boston. We discussed their movie’s nightmare scenario in which advertisers insert product placement into your dreams, the duo’s love of analog aesthetics and why sometimes it’s not such a bad thing to fall asleep during a movie. – IFFBoston, 05/14/2021









