Multidisciplinary film and theatre criticism
Toronto's InsideOut Film Festival, a showcase for current LGBT cinema, featured several great queer coming-of-agers from around the world: Handsome Devil, A …
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Desdemona Chiang's As You Like It at CalShakes is an inventive modern dress production emphasizing doubles, disguises, and the performance of love. …
Steve James’ new documentary, ABACUS: Small Enough to Jail is a wonderful little treasure. On one level, it’s the story of a small family-owned bank, ABACUS, in …
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Cannes Winning director Cristian Mungiu discusses his approach to sound and framing in Graduation. …
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Amanda Kernell discusses her exquisite feature debut, "a coming-of-age story, with joik and blood, about a girl with a knife," and how it illuminates South Sami …
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Amanda Kernell’s Sami Blood is an astonishingly accomplished and movie feature debut, which follows an Indigenous Swedish girl caught between two worlds. …
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Rama Burshtein's The Wedding Plan, her follow-up to Fill the Void, is another thoughtful exploration of women and marriage in Orthodox Jewish culture. …
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Simon McBurney's one-man show The Encounter is a journey into the Amazon and the nature of consciousness, using theatre itself as a metaphor for memory. …
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Katell Quillévéré’s Heal the Living is an utterly original film about the threshold between life and death, in which the camera moves through a hospital's halls …
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In Terence Davies' screen adaptation of Rattigan's The Deep Blue Sea, Davies plunges us into Hester's memories, nudging us to accept her interpretation of …
