What makes Nouvelle Vague special is Linklater’s confidence in the hang. He understands that revolutions don’t look revolutionary while they’re happening. They look like people standing around, arguing about ideas, borrowing gear, shooting on streets they don’t own, and trusting that something will cohere later.
Cinema is life to The Secret Agent’s writer and director, Brazilian critic-turned-filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho.
All the preparation in the world will not prepare you for the surreal moment when a previously unnoticed slide door opens, and Ethan Hawke steps through.
We're here to cross the streams and discuss the amazing work of Kelly Reichardt, featured on MUBI, with the terrific, wise, and funny Brandon Streussnig.
In this very special, penultimate episode for 2015, I catch up with writer/director/author S. Craig Zahler to reflect on the tenth anniversary of his terrifying, gruesome and elegant directorial debut, BONE TOMAHAWK.
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On paper, it’s a familiar midlife recalibration story: work, marriage, identity, creativity. On screen, it plays like a series of almost moments that never quite click into rhythm.