Fin de cinéma

I don’t really have any sweeping or acute observations about the state of the music industry in 2015, so here are some unrelated, purely...

With each passing year, my annual lists (which seem to mark the only time I have in a given year for writing “for fun” about film) becom...

For fun, I’ve also put together a list of 10 more films that wouldn’t exactly qualify as numbers 11 through 20 of my favorite films of t...

Te prometo anarquía ( I Promise You Anarchy ). Julio Hernández Cordón. Mexico/Germany. If you held a knife to my throat and forced me t...

Nova Dubai ( New Dubai ). Gustavo Vinagre. Brazil. When radical queers bemoan the rise in the gay marriage movement or the focus of ins...

Neon Bull ( Boi Neon ). Gabriel Mascaro. Brazil/Uruguay/Netherlands. What’s most impressive about Gabriel Mascaro’s Neon Bull isn’t ...

Full Contact . David Verbeek. Netherlands/Croatia. Working from an air force base somewhere in the Nevada desert halfway across the wo...

Everlasting Love ( Amor eterno ). Marçal Forés. Spain. Comparing Marçal Forés’ Everlasting Love to Alain Guiraudie’s Stranger by the L...

Tales of the Grim Sleeper . Nick Broomfield. UK/USA. With the year book-ended by a pair of first-rate miniseries (Andrew Jarecki’s The J...

All Yours ( Je suis à toi ). David Lambert. Belgium/Canada. Shamefully overlooked by the mainstream film festival circuit as well as th...