Long Day’s Journey Into Night (China/France, 140 min.) Dir. Bi Gan It’s over fifty years since Susan Sontag in Against Interpretation admonished critics to supplant hermeneutics with erotics—to attend to surfaces instead
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Keep ReadingThe Image Book (Switzerland/France, 84 min.) Dir. Jean-Luc Godard Programme: Masters (North American Premiere) Godard has never been in doubt of his own genius, but at some point he left the rest
Keep ReadingDiamantino (Portugal/France/Brazil, 97 min.) Dir. Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt Programme: Midnight Madness (North American Premiere) Abrantes and Schmidt are part of a New York avant-garde film scene comprised mostly of Cooper
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Robert Greene’s new film Bisbee ’17 is about the performance of history in the present.
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Victory Day, Sergei Loznitsa’s new film, takes place in the present and serves as a sort of companion piece to Austerlitz.
Keep Reading4 Years in 10 Minutes (Serbia, 62 min.) Dir. Mladen Kovacevic Programme: World Showcase (North American Premiere) For many, summiting Mount Everest is synonymous with Achievement with a capital A. It
Keep ReadingBarbara Rubin and the Exploding NY Underground_ (USA, 78 min) Dir. Chuck Smith Programme: Nightvisions (World Premiere) “Meet the woman who introduced Andy Warhol to The Velvet Underground! Beloved by Ginsberg,
Keep ReadingStopping short of offering any insight extrinsic to the Beksinskis’ own, the film ends up the exact kind of dark joke they understood their existence to be.
Keep ReadingBraguino (France, 49 min.) Dir. Clément Cogitore Programme: The Changing Face of Europe Deep in the Siberian taiga, 1000 kilometres from the nearest settlement, live the Braguines, a family of Old
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