Film Inquiry
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Film InquirySOMETHING POINTLESS: Finding Purpose in the Pointless Sometimes a film takes you exactly where you expect it to. You see the emotional beats coming, recognize what it wants you to feel, and find yourself happily going along anyway. Predictable? Sure.
Film InquiryLFF 2026: THE LIBERATION The Liberation is a story of personalities. How they’re formed and where they might lead us. How they clash or meld with others’, how they change over time. It’s also a personal story.
Film InquiryDirector Ellen Rodnianski For AMERICAN BABY: Finding Nuance in Divisive Debate Few contemporary subjects feel as fraught as reproductive rights in America. For filmmaker Ellen Rodnianski , in her feature debut, tackling that conversation in her debut feature American Baby was…
Film InquiryVincent Grashaw On BRUTON & the Art of Staying Independent For Vincent Grashaw , filmmaking was never about chasing Hollywood. It was about survival, curiosity, and an almost stubborn commitment to telling stories his own way.
Film InquiryCAT CAM: Paranormal Feline Activity Last year’s Good Boy answered the question, “What if the dog was the main character in a horror movie?” A far better film than it had any right to be, Good Boy used its canine protagonist as the…
Film InquiryNYFF Review: Lee Chang-dong’s POSSIBLE LOVE It shouldn’t be surprising to most people that there is a noticeably large influx of movies that tie directly to labor exploitation.
Film InquiryParis Was a Woman: Paris When It Sizzled An adaptation of Andrea Weiss’s 1995 book of the same name, the 1996 documentary Paris Was a Woman shines a light on the women artists, writers, and cultural trendsetters that populated Paris at the…
Film InquiryLFF 2026: INK Ink’s opening scene is slower than you might expect from a Danny Boyle opening. There’s no Trainspotting pavement pounding or 28 Years Later Teletubbies-interrupting bloody zombie apocalypse.
Film InquiryCARRIE Season 1: Flanagan Does it Again Mike Flanagan ‘s Carrie is a gentle, alluring take that finally lets us meet the title character. This time, for a new generation.
Film InquiryNYFF Review: Valeska Greisbach’s THE DREAMED ADVENTURE An often-employed descriptor of Yasujiro Ozu ’s cinema among European and American audiences was always that both the style, substance, and mannerisms of its character dynamics were too esoteric, the…
Film InquiryRHYTHM IS A DANCER: Lauren Caster’s Heartfelt Indie Debut Rhythm is a Dancer is the kind of indie that wears its heart on its sleeve. A passion project from writer-director-star Lauren Caster , it is deeply personal while remaining broadly relatable.
Film InquiryNYFF64: Godzilla Minus Zero, A Man of His Time, Yesterday Girl My final round-up of this year’s New York Film Festival includes three films that seem to have very little in common: a thrilling kaiju spectacular, a World War II drama that won Best Screenplay at…
Film InquiryPalestine Cinema Dispatch: Fall 2026 Palestine Cinema Preview Some very exciting films about Palestine are coming to cinemas and streaming this fall. Documentaries about doctors trying to save as many people as they can, about journalists who stayed in northern…
Film InquiryNYFF64: Rose, Fatherland I’m thrilled to report that we have now reached the “black-and-white historical dramas starring Sandra Hüller ” portion of this year’s New York Film Festival .
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