3 Backyards (USA: Eric Mendelsohn, 2010: 88 mins)
Insdorf, Annette. Cinematic Overtures: How to Read Opening Scenes. Columbia University Press, 2017. ["Your professor has a copy of this book."]
Kellett, Christine. "Audience faints at 'realistic' amputation film." The Sydney Morning Herald (September 15, 2010)
Alice in Wonderland (USA: Tim Burton, 2010: 108 mins)
Donohue, M.A and Margo Porras. "Alice in Wonderland." Book vs. Movie (June 19, 2016)
A Nightmare on Elm Street (USA: Samuel Bayer, 2010: 95 mins)
Hancock, James and Mike Vanderbilt. "One, Two, Freddy's Coming for You." Wrong Reel #329 (October 2017)
Animal Kingdom (Australia: David Michod, 2010: 113 mins)
Larke-Walsh, George S. and Stephanie Oliver. "‘This Thing of Ours’: A Woman’s Place in the Gangster Genre." Senses of Cinema #91 (July 2019)
"Blue Valentine and Falling Out of Love." Pop Culture Case Study (September 1, 2016)
The Book of Eli (USA: Albert Hughes and Allen Hughes, 2010: 118 mins)
Carhill, C. Robert and Brian Salisbury. "The Book of Eli." Junk Food Cinema #124 (February 2017)
The Builder (USA: Rick Alverson, 2010: 94 mins)
Anderson, Barry, et al. "Rick Alverson Arrives! (2010-2015)." Illusion Travels by Streetcar (December 10, 2015)
Lee, Kevin B. "Into the Void: Films by Rick Alverson." Keyframe (June 12, 2015)
Cairo 678 (Egypt: Mohammed Diab, 2010: 100 mins)
Avile, Robert. "Revolution and Other Taboo Topics: Egyptian filmmaker Mohamed Diab takes on sexual harassment and anticipates a revolution with his restive directorial debut, CAIRO 678." Keyframe (October 10, 2013)
Caterpillar (Japan: Koji Wakamatsu, 2010: 85 mins)
Erickson, Steve. "Extreme Measures: Koji Wakamatsu's two-pronged attacks on the Japanese left and right." Moving Image Source (May 6, 2011)
Certified Copy (France/Italy/Belgium/Iran: Abbas Kiarostami, 2010: 106 mins)
Robinson, Matty, et al. "Abbas Kiarostami: The Filmspotting Reviews." Filmspotting (July 20, 2016)
Atkinson, Michael. "Essential Wandering Jerzy Skolimowski and the search for a mythical home." Moving Image Source (June 10, 2011)
Fair Game (USA/United Arab Emirates: Doug Liman, 2010: 108 mins)
Garcia-Mainar, Luis M. "The Return of the Realist Spy Film." Cineaction #88 (2012)
The Fighter (USA: David O. Russell, 2010: 116 mins)
Flynn, Nick, Rick Marinick and Anna Mundow. "Boston Noir." Radio Open Source (December 8, 2014)
Johnson, Mackenzie. "What Makes David O. Russell so David O. Russell." Film Stage (October 17, 2016)
Film Socialisme (Switzerland/France: Jean-Luc Godard, 2010: 102 mins)
Phelps, David. "Film Socialisme Annotated: A guided tour through Jean-Luc Godard's most allusive film." Moving Image Source (June 7, 2011)
Foreign Parts (USA/France: Verena Paravel and J.P. Sniadecki, 2010: 81 mins)
Cronk, Jordan. "China Behind: J.P. Sniadecki’s Eastern Ethnographies." Keyframe (April 17, 2014)
Four Lions (UK/France: Christopher Morris, 2010: 97 mins)
Britton, Sophie. "Terror-Vision: How Recent British Cinema Has Dealt with the Subject of Terrorism." Diegesis #9 (2015)
Free Radicals (France/USA: Pip Chodorov, 2010: 80 mins)
Lee, Kevin B. "Experimental Fireworks in the Land of Free Radicals: ‘Independent’ is not so much a genre as a state of mind." Keyframe (July 2, 2013)
The Ghost Writer (France/Germany/UK: Roman Polanski, 2010: 128 mins)
López, Cristina Álvarez and Adrian Martin. "Roman Polanski: Cinema of Invasion." ACMI (October 13, 2016)
Rahbar, Jean. "U.S. ambivalence about torture: an analysis of post-9/11 films." Jump Cut #56 (Winter 2014/2015)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Pt. 1/Harry Potter and the Deathy Hallows, Pt. 2 (UK/USA: David Yates, 2010/2011: 146/130 mins)
Crass, Chris. "Expecto Patronum: Lessons From Harry Potter for Social Justice Organizing." Truthout (December 15, 2013)
Harvest of Loneliness (USA: Gilbert Gonzalez, Vivian Price and Adrian Salinas, 2010: 56 mins)
Price, Vivian. "Harvest of Loneliness: The Bracero Program." History for the Future (April 3, 2012)
Howl (USA: Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, 2010: 84 mins)
Lachman, Edward. "Howl." American Cinematographer #22 (2010) ["Edward Lachman, ASC, talks with American Cinematographer’s Iain Stasukevich about the concepts behind visualizing the works of artists like Bob Dylan and Allen Ginsberg, particularly regarding his work on the recent film Howl."]
"In a Better World. (2010) Susanne Bier." Filmsweep (June 29, 2011)
Inside Job (USA: Charles Ferguson, 2010: 120 mins)
Ferguson, Charles. "Predator Nation: Corporate Criminals, Political Corruption, and the Hijacking of America." Democracy Now (Posted on Dialogic: May 29, 2012)
Into Eternity: A Film for the Future (Denmark/Finland/Sweden/Italy: Michael Madsen, 2010: 75 mins)
Into Eternity Making Contact (March 18, 2014) ["Our world is generating more and more nuclear waste, but have no permanent place to dispose of it. But the nation of Finland has a plan. They’re building an underground cave, to hold thousands of tones of nuclear waste, for at least 100 thousand years. On this edition, we hear excerpts of the film, “Into Eternity”, which explores the logistical and philosophical quandaries around the construction of something that if it works, might very well outlast the entire human race."]
Iron Man II (USA: Jon Favreau, 2010: 124 mins)
Claverie, Ezra. "The Hollywood superhero as brand manager: An allegory of intellectual property." Jump Cut #57 (Fall 2016)
Kaboom (USA: Greg Araki, 2010: 86 mins)
Maanen, James Van. Kaboom Guru (May 31, 2011)
The Kids Are All Right (USA: Lisa Chodolenko, 2010: 106 mins)
Cosbey, Janet. "Reel Families: The Delicate Balance of Family and Work in Film." Cinematic Sociology: Social Life in Film. Los Angeles, CA: Sage, 2013: 194-207. [In BCTC Library PN1995.9 S6 C543 2013]
The Killer Inside Me (USA/Sweden/UK/Canada: Michael Winterbottom, 2010: 109 mins)
Stadler, Jane. "Affectless Empathy, Embodied Imagination and The Killer Inside Me." Screening the Past (October 2013)
The King's Speech (UK/USA/Australia: Tom Hooper, 2010: 118 mins)
Benedict, Steven. "The King's Speech." (February 10, 2011)
Let Me In (United Kingdom/USA: Matt Reeves, 2010: 116 mins)
Hart, David and Chris Maynard. "Let Me In and Inadequacy." Pop Culture Case Study #252 (July 13, 2017)
Kuerstein, Erich. "Swedish Death, American Style." Acidemic #7 (2012)
Living Downstream (Canada/USA: Chanda Chevannes, 2010: 85 mins)
Steingraber, Sandra. "Living Downstream - creating a world free of cancer causing toxics." Making Contact (July 22, 2015) ["Renowned biologist Sandra Steingraber has made fighting environmentally induced cancers her lifes work. Steingraber’s book, Living Downstream, has been turned into a movie chronicling a year in her life trying to create a world free of cancer causing toxics. On this edition, we hear excerpts of the documentary film, Living Downstream."]
Marwencol (USA: Jeff Malmberg, 2010: 83 mins)
"War Movies for People Who Don’t Like War Movies." Keyframe (November 11, 2015) ["Even the staunchest ‘anti-war’ movies glorify killing fields. In MARWENCOL and LA FRANCE, we find a few key exceptions to the rule."]
My Joy (Ukraine/Germany/Netherlands: Sergei Loznitsa, 2010: 127 mins)
Kaufman, Anthony. "The Occupied Soul of Ukraine." Keyframe (March 24, 2014)
The Mysteries of Lisbon (Portugal: Raoul Ruiz, 2010: 272 mins)
Vishnevetsky, Ignatiy. "Everything is Permeable." The Current (August 5, 2011)
Never Let Me Go (UK/USA: Mark Romanek, 2010: 103 mins)
Kunkel, Benjamin. "Dystopia and the End of Politics." Dissent (Fall 2008)
Nostalgia for the Light (France/Germany/Chile/Spain/USA: Patricio Guzmán, 2010: 90 mins)
Ball, Norman. "Fourth Moments in the Atacama Desert: On Patricio Guzmán's Nostalgia for the Light." Bright Lights Film Journal #78 (November 2012)
Kara, Selmin. "Beasts of the Digital Wild: Primordigital Cinema and the Question of Origins." Sequence 1.4 (2014)
The Oath (USA: Laura Poitras, 2010: 90 mins)
Barnes, Christopher. "Representing Incarceration in Persons of Interest and The Oath." Jump Cut #57 (Fall 2016)
Of Gods and Men (France: Xavier Beauvois, 2010: 122 mins)
Greydanus, Stephen D. "'Of Gods and Men': A transcendent spiritual portrait of faith, love and martyrdom." National Catholic Register (March 9, 2011)
Swinney, Jacob T. "12 Essential Women Cinematographers." (August 10, 2016)
The Pack (France/Belgium: Frank Richard, 2010: 84 mins)
Murray, Robin and Joseph Heumann. "Earth bites back: vampires and the ecological roots of home." Jump Cut #55 (Fall 2013)
Paranormal Activity 2 (USA: Tod Williams, 2010: 91 mins)
Leyda, Julie. "Demon debt: Paranormal Activity as recessionary post-cinematic allegory." Netflix #56 (Winter 2014/2015)
Percy Jackson and The Olympians: The Lightning Thief (UK/Canada/USA: Chris Columbus, 2010: 118 mins)
Hemphill, Jim. "Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief." The American Cinematographer #15 (2010)
Poetry (South Korea: Lee Chang-Dong, 2010: 139 mins)
Raymond, Marc. "From Old Boys to Quiet Dreams: Mapping Korean Art Cinema Today." Film Criticism 42.1 (March 2018) ["This essay theorizes Korean art cinema today through an analysis of domestic festivals (especially Busan, Jeonju, and Bucheon), major festivals abroad (particularly Cannes, Berlin, and Toronto), and various other institutions in order to provide a comprehensive mapping of how art cinema within Korea currently operates. Using sociological theories of taste pioneered by Pierre Bourdieu, the paper shows how the dominant name auteurs of Korea, particularly Park Chan-wook and Lee Chang-dong, were established through international festivals, beginning in the 1990s but exploding in the 2000s, at the same time as Korean films began to compete with and surpass Hollywood films at the local box office. These filmmakers were shaped by the changing ideas of art cinema globally, as theorized by scholars such as David Andrews, and the dominance of these figures thus helped shape the domestic festivals, with younger Korean directors often following within these traditions. The rise of the domestic box office helped create an independent cinema within the country, not unlike the emergence of indie cinema in the United States during the blockbuster era, which had the consequence of both increasing opportunities for young directors while often pigeon-holing them into narrow niches."]
Potiche (France: Francois Ozon, 2010: 103 mins)
Flores, Steven. "The Auteurs: Francois Ozon." Cinema Axis (May 20, 2014)
Kalat, David. "Rare Exports." Movie Morlocks (December 24, 2011)
Road to Nowhere (USA: Monte Hellman, 2010: 121 mins)
Quintin. "Road to Nowhere." Cinema Scope #46 (Spring 2011)
Rubber (France/Angola: Quentin Dupieux, 2010: 82 mins)
Anderson, Jason. "The Important Element of No Reason: The Mad World of Quentin Dupieux's Rubber." Cinema Scope (Spring 2011)
Senna (UK/France/USA: Asif Kapadia, 2010: 106 mins)
Hancock, James and Orest Ludwig. "Cars, Cinema and Senna." Wrong Reel #172 (August 20, 2016)
Shit Year (USA: Cam Archer, 2010: 95 mins)
Tafoya, Scout. "The Post-Punk Cinema Manifesto." Keyframe (September 10, 2015)
Koresky, Michael and Jeff Reichert. "Martin Scorsese: He Is Cinema." Reverse Shot (September 17, 2014)
Lehane, Dennis. "Between Dorchester Ave and Sunset Boulevard." Radio Open Source (November 22, 2010)
Martin Scorsese - The Art of Silence from Tony Zhou on Vimeo.
Silent Souls (Russia: Aleksey Fedorchenko, 2010: 78 mins)
Kaufman, Anthony. "Mikhail Krichman: On Russian light and The Return." Keyframe (January 6, 2014)
Sleeping Beauty (France: Catherine Breillat, 2010: 82 mins)
Garcia, Maria. "Rewriting Fairy Tales, Revisiting Female Identity: An Interview with Catherine Breillat." Cineaste 36.3 (2011)
Somewhere (USA/UK/Italy/Japan: Sofia Coppola, 2010: 97 mins)
Loneliness of Sofia Coppola from movement_of_time on Vimeo.
Storage Wars (A & E: 2010 - )
Greene, Doyle. "Storage Wars: A Reading After the Weinstein Scandal." Film Criticism 42.3 (Autumn 2018)
Tabloid (USA: Errol Morris, 2010: 87 mins)
Morris, Errol. "Conflicting Narratives." On the Media (August 30, 2017) ["In 1977, a former beauty queen with a 168 IQ named Joyce McKinney became British tabloid fodder when she supposedly kidnapped her Mormon boyfriend at gunpoint and, for four days, kept him as her sex slave. Documentary filmmaker Errol Morris' 2011 documentary Tabloid looked into the claims and the tabloid coverage."]
Tears of Gaza (Norway/Palestine: Vibeke Løkkeberg, 2010: 90 mins)
Lokkeberg, Vibeke. "Tears of Gaza." Film School (September 21, 2012) ["Disturbing, powerful and emotionally devastating, TEARS OF GAZA is less a conventional documentary than a record–presented with minimal gloss – of the 2008 to 2009 bombing of Gaza by the Israeli military. Photographed by several Palestinian cameramen both during and after the offensive, this powerful film by director Vibeke Løkkeberg focuses on the impact of the attacks on the civilian population."]
The Tillman Story (USA: Amir Bar-Lev, 2010: 94 mins)
Kirby, Sean. "Cinematographer - Police Beat, Zoo, Lovely Still, Against The Current, The Tillman Story." Spoiler Alert Radio (January 10, 2011)
Vizcarrondo, Sara. "The Legend of Pat Tillman: Deconstructing a Military Myth." International Documentary Association (August 20, 2010)
The Town (USA: Ben Affleck, 2010: 125 mins)
Flynn, Nick, Rick Marinick and Anna Mundow. "Boston Noir." Radio Open Source (December 8, 2014)
Treme (HBO TV Series: Eric Overmeyer and David Simon: 2010 - )
Leyda, Julia. "'This Complicated, Colossal Failure': The Abjection of Creighton Bernette in HBO's Treme." Television and New Media (February 7, 2012)
Tron: Legacy (USA: Joseph Kosinski, 2010: 125 mins)
Bridges, Jeff, Joseph Kosinski and Olivia Wilde. "Tron: Legacy." Sci-Fi-London (November 4, 2011)
"Tron Legacy and Connection in a Digital World." Pop Culture Case Study #274 (October 5, 2017)
Two Gates of Sleep (USA: Alistair Banks Griffin, 2010: 78 mins)
Tafoya, Scout. "The Post-Punk Cinema Manifesto." Keyframe (September 10, 2015)
Rahbar, Jean. "U.S. ambivalence about torture: an analysis of post-9/11 films." Jump Cut #56 (Winter 2014/2015)
Waiting for Superman (USA: Dave Guggenheim, 2010: 111 mins)
Faux, Jeff. " Education Profiteering; Wall Street's Next Big Thing?" The Real News Network (September 30, 2012)
The Walking Dead (AMC: Frank Darabont, 2010 - )
Bures, Frank, et al. "Dispatches From the Ruins: Why do we crave the awful futures of apocalyptic fiction?" Aeon (May 16, 2017) ["In the first two decades of the new millennium, stories of the post-apocalypse have permeated pop culture, from books such as Cormac McCarthy’s The Road (2006), Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl (2009) and Emily St John Mandel’s Station Eleven (2014) to films and TV programmes such as The Walking Dead (2010-), the Hunger Games series (2012-15) and Mad Max: Fury Road (2015). While post-apocalyptic fictions of previous eras largely served as cautionary tales – against nuclear brinksmanship in On the Beach(1959) or weaponised biology in The Stand (1978) – today’s versions of these tales depict less alterable, more oblique and diffuse visions of our doom. So why can’t we seem to get enough of humanity’s unavoidable collapse and its bleak aftermath? "]
2011:
18 Days (Egypt: Ahmad Abdalla, et al., 2011: 125 mins)
Massa, Stephen. "18 Days and the 'Montage of History'." Bright Lights Film Journal #78 (November 2012)
A Beautiful Hot Summer (France/Italy/Switzerland: Phillipe Garrel, 2001: 95 mins)
López, Cristina Álvarez and Adrian Martin. "All Tomorrow's Parties." Notebook (January 20, 2014)
The Adventures of Tin Tin (USA/New Zealand: Steven Spielberg, 2011: 107 mins)
Benedict, Steven. "The Techniques and Themes of Steven Spielberg." Vimeo (August 8, 2012)
All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace (United Kingdom: Adam Curtis, 2011: 180 mins)
Atkinson, Michael. "Archival Trouble: The fiction-free science fiction of Adam Curtis." Moving Image Source (February 16, 2012)
Ball, Norman. "The Power of Auteurs and the Last Man Standing: Adam Curtis' Documentary Nightmares." Bright Lights Film Journal #78 (November 2012)
Art History (USA: Joe Swanberg, 2011: 74 mins)
Tafoya, Scout. "The Post-Punk Cinema Manifesto." Keyframe (September 10, 2015)
The Attack the Block Issue #34 (2011)
Palmer, Lorrie. "Attack the Block: Monsters, Race, and Rewriting South London’s Outer Spaces." Jump Cut #56 (Wineter 2014/2015)
The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye (Netherlands/Belgium/France/UK/Germany/USA: Marie Losier, 2011: 72 mins)
Cleaver, Sarah Kathryn and Mary Wild. "Fashion Films Episode 8: Shadow Selves & Artifice." Projections (June 5, 2019) ["For our final episode in the Fashion Films series, Mary and Sarah discuss the controversial documentary The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye (2011) and Olivier Assayas’s Personal Shopper (2016) starring Kristen Stewart. We’re wrapping up our exploration of fashion and film with a look at Jung’s theory of the shadow, public personas, fakes, counterfeits, truth and lies. And a bit of astrology too."]
Bellflower (USA: Evan Glodell, 2011: 106 mins)
Church, David. "“Propane is for pussies”: Bellflower’s bromance of retro technology and hip masculinity." Jump Cut #55 (Fall 2013)
Black Mirror (UK TV series: Charlie Brooker, 2011 - )
Ha, Anthony, et al. "Black Mirror’s Biggest Twist? An Actual Happy Ending." Geek's Guide to the Galaxy (October 29, 2016)
Break My Fall (UK: Kanchi Wichmann, 2011: 107 mins)
Wichmann, Kanchi. "Lesbian Films Don't Make Money." Another Gaze (March 9, 2016)
Brooklyn Bros. Beat the Best (USA: Ryan O'Nan, 2011: 98 mins)
O'Nan, Ryan. "Brooklyn Bros. Beat the Best." Film School (September 28, 2012)
Bullhead (Belgium/Netherlands: Michaël R. Roskam, 2011: 129 mins)
O'Malley, Sheila. "Present Tense: Matthias Schoenaerts." Film Comment (September 12, 2019)
The Color Wheel (USA: Alex Ross Perry, 2011: 83 mins)
Marsh, Calum. "The Color Wheel: Confronting the Modern Condition." Keyframe (January 17, 2014)
Carnage (France/Germany/Poland/Spain: Roman Polanski, 2011: 80 mins)
Isenberg, Noah and Rob White. "Carnage and All: A Discussion." Film Quarterly (Spring 2012)
Power, Nina, Helen Rollins, and Benjamin Studebaker. "Carnage." The Lack (October 5, 2022)
Crazy Horse (USA/France: Frederick Wiseman, 2011: 134 mins)
Wiseman, Fredrick, et al. "Frederick Wiseman's Crazy Horse. Radio West (January 3, 2012)
Damsels in Distress (USA: Whit Stillman, 2011: 99 mins)
Smith, Justine, et al. "Spotlight + Interview – Director Whit Stillman (‘Damsels In Distress,’ ‘The Last Days of Disco’)." Sound on Sight #319 (May 3, 2012)
Declaration of War (France: Valérie Donzelli, 2011: 100 mins)
O'Hehir, Andrew. "Surviving a parents’ nightmare, with wine and sex: A young couple faces their son's deadly illness, with Parisian flair, in Declaration of War." Salon (January 26, 2012)
The Deep Blue Sea (UK/USA: Terence Davies, 2011: 98 mins)
Wood, Jason. "Directors of the Year: Terence Davies." International Film Guide: 2012 ed. Ian Hadyn Smith.
Detachment (USA: Tony Kaye, 2011: 98 mins)
Tony Kaye's Detachment is a powerful meditation on teacher-cogs and disadvantaged students caught in the corporatizing, underfunded, bureaucratic educational system. Told through the viewpoint of a long term substitute teacher caught in his own mind, who slowly opens up to the world in his slow awakening as a result of his interaction with two youths (one in his class and one on the streets). I particularly appreciated the glimpses into the minds (literally) of many of the main characters and slipstream manner of the narration. One of the best films about teaching I have seen, especially as it develops the main character as a fully fleshed out, problematic and conflicted force in a chaotic environment, not the stereotypical heroic force of simplistic Hollywood feel good teaching movies or the simplistic bad apple that privatized education advocates seek to portray teachers as. Besides being a great film of teaching and students, it is universal in its portrayal of workers struggling make sense and make a difference (or not) in an uncaring system/institution. It is difficult to communicate to people who do not teach the emotional havoc of this profession ... a good attempt to do so... -- Michael Dean Benton (November 17, 2018)
Don't Go Breaking My Heart (Hong Kong: Johnnie To, 2011: 115 mins)
Maclay, Willow. "Don't Go Breaking My Heart (Johnnie To, 2011)." The Vulgar Cinema (April 9, 2014)
Elena (Russia: Andrey Zvyagintsev, 2011: 109 mins)
Kaufman, Anthony. "Mikhail Krichman: On Russian light and The Return." Keyframe (January 6, 2014)
Bellflower (USA: Evan Glodell, 2011: 106 mins)
Church, David. "“Propane is for pussies”: Bellflower’s bromance of retro technology and hip masculinity." Jump Cut #55 (Fall 2013)
Black Mirror (UK TV series: Charlie Brooker, 2011 - )
Ha, Anthony, et al. "Black Mirror’s Biggest Twist? An Actual Happy Ending." Geek's Guide to the Galaxy (October 29, 2016)
Break My Fall (UK: Kanchi Wichmann, 2011: 107 mins)
Wichmann, Kanchi. "Lesbian Films Don't Make Money." Another Gaze (March 9, 2016)
O'Nan, Ryan. "Brooklyn Bros. Beat the Best." Film School (September 28, 2012)
Bullhead (Belgium/Netherlands: Michaël R. Roskam, 2011: 129 mins)
O'Malley, Sheila. "Present Tense: Matthias Schoenaerts." Film Comment (September 12, 2019)
The Color Wheel (USA: Alex Ross Perry, 2011: 83 mins)
Marsh, Calum. "The Color Wheel: Confronting the Modern Condition." Keyframe (January 17, 2014)
Carnage (France/Germany/Poland/Spain: Roman Polanski, 2011: 80 mins)
Isenberg, Noah and Rob White. "Carnage and All: A Discussion." Film Quarterly (Spring 2012)
Power, Nina, Helen Rollins, and Benjamin Studebaker. "Carnage." The Lack (October 5, 2022)
Crazy Horse (USA/France: Frederick Wiseman, 2011: 134 mins)
Wiseman, Fredrick, et al. "Frederick Wiseman's Crazy Horse. Radio West (January 3, 2012)
Damsels in Distress (USA: Whit Stillman, 2011: 99 mins)
Smith, Justine, et al. "Spotlight + Interview – Director Whit Stillman (‘Damsels In Distress,’ ‘The Last Days of Disco’)." Sound on Sight #319 (May 3, 2012)
Declaration of War (France: Valérie Donzelli, 2011: 100 mins)
O'Hehir, Andrew. "Surviving a parents’ nightmare, with wine and sex: A young couple faces their son's deadly illness, with Parisian flair, in Declaration of War." Salon (January 26, 2012)
The Deep Blue Sea (UK/USA: Terence Davies, 2011: 98 mins)
Wood, Jason. "Directors of the Year: Terence Davies." International Film Guide: 2012 ed. Ian Hadyn Smith.
Detachment (USA: Tony Kaye, 2011: 98 mins)
Tony Kaye's Detachment is a powerful meditation on teacher-cogs and disadvantaged students caught in the corporatizing, underfunded, bureaucratic educational system. Told through the viewpoint of a long term substitute teacher caught in his own mind, who slowly opens up to the world in his slow awakening as a result of his interaction with two youths (one in his class and one on the streets). I particularly appreciated the glimpses into the minds (literally) of many of the main characters and slipstream manner of the narration. One of the best films about teaching I have seen, especially as it develops the main character as a fully fleshed out, problematic and conflicted force in a chaotic environment, not the stereotypical heroic force of simplistic Hollywood feel good teaching movies or the simplistic bad apple that privatized education advocates seek to portray teachers as. Besides being a great film of teaching and students, it is universal in its portrayal of workers struggling make sense and make a difference (or not) in an uncaring system/institution. It is difficult to communicate to people who do not teach the emotional havoc of this profession ... a good attempt to do so... -- Michael Dean Benton (November 17, 2018)
Don't Go Breaking My Heart (Hong Kong: Johnnie To, 2011: 115 mins)
Maclay, Willow. "Don't Go Breaking My Heart (Johnnie To, 2011)." The Vulgar Cinema (April 9, 2014)
Kaufman, Anthony. "Mikhail Krichman: On Russian light and The Return." Keyframe (January 6, 2014)
The Grey (USA: Joe Carnahan, 2011: 117 mins)
Like Stories of Old. "The Grey - A Philosophy of Heroic Suffering." (Posted on Youtube: November 24, 2017) ["A video essay exploring how The Grey, although poorly marketed at the time of its release, is an underrated survival film about the importance of finding meaning in desperate situations. Resources: Viktor Frankl's book Man's Search for Meaning."]
Guilty of Romance (Japan: Sion Sono, 2011: 144 mins)
Gun Hill Road (USA: Rashaad Ernesto Green, 2011: 86 mins)
"Rashaad Ernesto Green, Director of Gun Hill Road." (IU Cinema: September 30, 2012)
Haywire (Ireland/USA: Steven Soderbergh, 2011: 93 mins)
Reardon, Kiva. "Haywire's Body Talk." cléo 1.1 (April 1, 2013)
Heist: Who Stole the American Dream?" (USA: Frances Causey and Donald Goldmacher, 2011: 90 mins)
Goldmacher, Donald. "Director of Heist Film School (August 24, 2012)
Hot Coffee (USA: Susan Saladoff, 2011: 88 mins)
Saladoff, Susan. "Hot Coffee." Media Matters (October 9, 2011)
I Don't Know How She Does It (USA: Douglas McGrath, 2011: 89 mins)
Cosbey, Janet. "Reel Families: The Delicate Balance of Family and Work in Film." Cinematic Sociology: Social Life in Film. Los Angeles, CA: Sage, 2013: 194-207. [In BCTC Library PN1995.9 S6 C543 2013]
In Darkness (Poland/Germany/Canada: Agnieszka Holland, 2011: 145 mins)
Tafoya, Scout. "The Post-Punk Cinema Manifesto." Keyframe (September 10, 2015)
In the Land of Blood and Honey (USA: Angelina Jolie, 2011: 127 mins)
Lanouette, Janine. "In the Land of Blood and Honey." Screen Takes (January 24, 2012)
---. "The Story Women Have Been Trying to Tell For Years Now." Filmmaker (November 15, 2017)
Into the Abyss (Germany/Canada: Werner Herzog, 2011: 107 Mins)
Ebert, Roger. "Nobody has the right to take another life." Chicago Sun-Times (January 4, 2012)
I Wish (Japan: Hirokazu Koreeda, 2011: 128 mins)
Kogonada. "The world according to Koreeda: How Japan’s modern master revives our taste for everyday life." Sight and Sound (January
Keyhole (Canada: Guy Maddin, 2011: 94 mins)
Smalley, Gregory J. "Keyhole (2011)." 366 Weird Movies #147 (July 3, 2013)
Tafoya, Scout. "The Post-Punk Cinema Manifesto." Keyframe (September 10, 2015)
The Kid with a Bike (Belgium/France/Italy: Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne, 2011: 87 mins)
Dima, Vlad. "Perpetual Motion: The Dardenne Brothers' The Kid with a Bike." Bright Lights Film Journal #80 (May 2013)
Killer Joe (USA: William Friedkin, 2011: 102 mins)
Murray, Noel. "William Friedkin and the Art of Immediacy." The Dissolve (May 1, 2014)
Le Havre (Finland/France/Germany: Aki Kaurismäki, 2011: 93 mins)
Sicinski, Michael. "Le Havre: 'Always Be a Human.'" Current (July 31, 2012)
---. "Port of Forgotten Dreams: Aki Kaurismäki’s Le Havre." Cinema Scope (November 4, 2011)
The Loneliest Planet (USA/Germany: Julia Loktev, 2011: 113 mins)
The Loneliest Planet Critics Round Up (Ongoing Archive)
Martha Marcy May Marlene (USA: Sean Durkin, 2011: 102 mins)
Durkin, Sean. "Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011)." Captive Eye #6 (February 4, 2012)
Midnight in Paris (Spain/USA: Woody Allen, 2011: 94 mins)
Merrick, Amy. "Living In: Midnight in Paris." Design Sponge (July 2011)
North, Dan. "Midnight in Paris. Spectacular Attractions (January 8, 2012)
Mildred Pierce (HBO TV Mini-series, 2011)
Leyda, Julia. ""Something That Is Dangerous and Arousing and Transgressive": An Interview with Todd Haynes." Bright Lights Film Journal #78 (November 2012)
Porton, Richard. "Mildred Pierce's Bitter Tears." Cinema Scope (Spring 2011)
Miss Bala (Mexico: Gerardo Naranjo, 2011: 113 mins)
Teodoro, Jose. Miss Bala: Nightmare State." Film Comment (January/February 2012)
Monsieur Lazhar (Canada: Philippe Falardeau, 2011: 94 mins)
Latella, Stephanie. "Lessons in Loss: Gender and Grief in Philippe Falardeau’s Monsieur Lazhar." cléo 1.3 (November 28, 2013)
New Jerusalem (USA: Rick Alverson, 2011: 94 mins)
Anderson, Barry, et al. "Rick Alverson Arrives! (2010-2015)." Illusion Travels by Streetcar (December 10, 2015)
Lee, Kevin B. "Into the Void: Films by Rick Alverson." Keyframe (June 12, 2015)
Like Stories of Old. "The Grey - A Philosophy of Heroic Suffering." (Posted on Youtube: November 24, 2017) ["A video essay exploring how The Grey, although poorly marketed at the time of its release, is an underrated survival film about the importance of finding meaning in desperate situations. Resources: Viktor Frankl's book Man's Search for Meaning."]
Guilty of Romance (Japan: Sion Sono, 2011: 144 mins)
Gun Hill Road (USA: Rashaad Ernesto Green, 2011: 86 mins)
"Rashaad Ernesto Green, Director of Gun Hill Road." (IU Cinema: September 30, 2012)
Haywire (Ireland/USA: Steven Soderbergh, 2011: 93 mins)
Reardon, Kiva. "Haywire's Body Talk." cléo 1.1 (April 1, 2013)
Heist: Who Stole the American Dream?" (USA: Frances Causey and Donald Goldmacher, 2011: 90 mins)
Goldmacher, Donald. "Director of Heist Film School (August 24, 2012)
Hot Coffee (USA: Susan Saladoff, 2011: 88 mins)
Saladoff, Susan. "Hot Coffee." Media Matters (October 9, 2011)
I Don't Know How She Does It (USA: Douglas McGrath, 2011: 89 mins)
Cosbey, Janet. "Reel Families: The Delicate Balance of Family and Work in Film." Cinematic Sociology: Social Life in Film. Los Angeles, CA: Sage, 2013: 194-207. [In BCTC Library PN1995.9 S6 C543 2013]
In Darkness (Poland/Germany/Canada: Agnieszka Holland, 2011: 145 mins)
Insdorf, Annette. Cinematic Overtures: How to Read Opening Scenes. Columbia University Press, 2017. ["Your professor has a copy of this book."]
In the Land of Blood and Honey (USA: Angelina Jolie, 2011: 127 mins)
Lanouette, Janine. "In the Land of Blood and Honey." Screen Takes (January 24, 2012)
---. "The Story Women Have Been Trying to Tell For Years Now." Filmmaker (November 15, 2017)
Ebert, Roger. "Nobody has the right to take another life." Chicago Sun-Times (January 4, 2012)
I Wish (Japan: Hirokazu Koreeda, 2011: 128 mins)
Kogonada. "The world according to Koreeda: How Japan’s modern master revives our taste for everyday life." Sight and Sound (January
Keyhole (Canada: Guy Maddin, 2011: 94 mins)
Smalley, Gregory J. "Keyhole (2011)." 366 Weird Movies #147 (July 3, 2013)
Dima, Vlad. "Perpetual Motion: The Dardenne Brothers' The Kid with a Bike." Bright Lights Film Journal #80 (May 2013)
Killer Joe (USA: William Friedkin, 2011: 102 mins)
Murray, Noel. "William Friedkin and the Art of Immediacy." The Dissolve (May 1, 2014)
Sicinski, Michael. "Le Havre: 'Always Be a Human.'" Current (July 31, 2012)
---. "Port of Forgotten Dreams: Aki Kaurismäki’s Le Havre." Cinema Scope (November 4, 2011)
The Loneliest Planet (USA/Germany: Julia Loktev, 2011: 113 mins)
The Loneliest Planet Critics Round Up (Ongoing Archive)
Margin Call(USA: J.C. Chandor, 2011: 107 mins)
Pepe, Michael. "Eating, sleeping and watching movies in the shadow of what they do: Representing capitalism in post 2008 popular films." Jump Cut #57 (Fall 2016)
Pepe, Michael. "Eating, sleeping and watching movies in the shadow of what they do: Representing capitalism in post 2008 popular films." Jump Cut #57 (Fall 2016)
Martha Marcy May Marlene (USA: Sean Durkin, 2011: 102 mins)
Durkin, Sean. "Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011)." Captive Eye #6 (February 4, 2012)
Merrick, Amy. "Living In: Midnight in Paris." Design Sponge (July 2011)
North, Dan. "Midnight in Paris. Spectacular Attractions (January 8, 2012)
Mildred Pierce (HBO TV Mini-series, 2011)
Leyda, Julia. ""Something That Is Dangerous and Arousing and Transgressive": An Interview with Todd Haynes." Bright Lights Film Journal #78 (November 2012)
Porton, Richard. "Mildred Pierce's Bitter Tears." Cinema Scope (Spring 2011)
Miss Bala (Mexico: Gerardo Naranjo, 2011: 113 mins)
Teodoro, Jose. Miss Bala: Nightmare State." Film Comment (January/February 2012)
Monsieur Lazhar (Canada: Philippe Falardeau, 2011: 94 mins)
Latella, Stephanie. "Lessons in Loss: Gender and Grief in Philippe Falardeau’s Monsieur Lazhar." cléo 1.3 (November 28, 2013)
Anderson, Barry, et al. "Rick Alverson Arrives! (2010-2015)." Illusion Travels by Streetcar (December 10, 2015)
Lee, Kevin B. "Into the Void: Films by Rick Alverson." Keyframe (June 12, 2015)
Polisse (France: Maiwenn, 2011: 127 mins)
Link, Trevor. "Polisse." Spectrum Culture (May 20, 2012)
Portlandia (USA TV: Fred Armisten, Carrie Brownstein and Jonathan Krisel: 2011- )
Erbland, Kate. "15 Best 'Portlandia' Sketches." Rolling Stone (January 7, 2015)
Senorita (Philippines: Isabel Sandoval, 2011: 100 mins)
Sandoval, Isabel. "Seeing as the Other: Klute and Senorita." E-Flux #117 (2021)
Silver Bullets (USA: Joe Swanberg, 2011: 69 mins)
McNeil, Jeremiah. "Silver Bullets." My Cinematic Mind (April 24, 2014)
Tafoya, Scout. "The Post-Punk Cinema Manifesto." Keyframe (September 10, 2015)
Sleeping Beauty (Australia: Julia Leigh, 2011: 101 mins)
Chow, Lesley. "Dream Story: Julia Leigh's Sleeping Beauty." Bright Lights Film Journal #76 (May 2012)
Source Code (USA: Duncan Jones, 2011: 93 mins)
Fitch, Alex. "Duncan Jones on Source Code." Reality Check (September 12, 2011)
Take Shelter (USA: Jeff Nichols, 2011: 120 mins)
Kreider, Timothy. "The End of Everything: Apocalyptic Films." Jump Cuts #55 (Fall 2013)
This is Not a Film (Iran: Jafar Panahi, 2011: 75 mins)
White, Rob. "Institutionalized." Film Quarterly 65.3 (Spring 2012)
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (France/UK/Germany: Tomas Aldredson, 2011: 127 mins)
Rehlin, Gunnar. "Directors of the Year: Tomas Alfredson." International Film Guide: 2012. 48th Edition. [BCTC Library: PN 1993.3 I544 2012]
McNeil, Jeremiah. "Silver Bullets." My Cinematic Mind (April 24, 2014)
Tafoya, Scout. "The Post-Punk Cinema Manifesto." Keyframe (September 10, 2015)
Sleeping Beauty (Australia: Julia Leigh, 2011: 101 mins)
Chow, Lesley. "Dream Story: Julia Leigh's Sleeping Beauty." Bright Lights Film Journal #76 (May 2012)
Source Code (USA: Duncan Jones, 2011: 93 mins)
Fitch, Alex. "Duncan Jones on Source Code." Reality Check (September 12, 2011)
Take Shelter (USA: Jeff Nichols, 2011: 120 mins)
Bradley, S.A. "Fear of God: Faith Based Horror." Hellbent for Horror #41 (May 18, 2017) ["Religion is a comfort to some, and a horror to others. Some very good horror movies focus on deeds done in the name of the Almighty. The characters in these movies hear voices, or have dreams, and they’re compelled to act in strange and horrible ways. Are they mad? Are they? These movies haunt you because there’s not an easy answer."]
This is Not a Film (Iran: Jafar Panahi, 2011: 75 mins)
White, Rob. "Institutionalized." Film Quarterly 65.3 (Spring 2012)
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (France/UK/Germany: Tomas Aldredson, 2011: 127 mins)
Rehlin, Gunnar. "Directors of the Year: Tomas Alfredson." International Film Guide: 2012. 48th Edition. [BCTC Library: PN 1993.3 I544 2012]
Too Big To Fail (USA: Curtis Hanson, 2011: 99 mins)
Pepe, Michael. "Eating, sleeping and watching movies in the shadow of what they do: Representing capitalism in post 2008 popular films." Jump Cut #57 (Fall 2016)
Tafoya, Scout. "The Post-Punk Cinema Manifesto." Keyframe (September 10, 2015)
Young Adult (USA: Jason Reitman, 2011: 94 mins)
Flores, Steven. "The Auteurs: Jason Reitman." Cinema Axis (February 26, 2014)
"Introducing Andrew Haigh's Weekend." The Current (August 20, 2012)
Lim, Dennis. "Weekend: The Space Between Two People." Current (August 21, 2012)
We Have a Pope (Italy/France: Nanni Moretti, 2011: 102 mins)
Zordan, Davide. "Of Men, Roles and Rules: Nanni Moretti’s We Have a Pope." Journal of Religion & Film 17.2 (October 2013)
We Need to Talk About Kevin (UK/USA: Lynne Ramsey, 2011: 112 mins)
Thornham, Sue. "‘A Hatred So Intense…’ We Need to Talk about Kevin, Postfeminism and Women’s Cinema." Sequence 2.1 (2013)
Where Do We Go Now (France/Lebanon/Italy/Egypt: Nadine Labaki, 2011: 110 mins)
Insdorf, Annette. Cinematic Overtures: How to Read Opening Scenes. Columbia University Press, 2017. ["Your professor has a copy of this book."]
Sánchez-Escalonilla, Antonio. "From Hoover to Bush Jr.: Home and Crisis Scripts in U.S. Social Cinema." Jump Cut #55 (Fall 2013)
You're Next (US/UK: Adam Wingard, 2011: 95 mins)
Prewitt, Zach. "The Best Horror Cinema of the 21st Cinema." (Posted on Vimeo: October 2016)
2012:
A Fierce Green Fire (USA: Mark Kitchell, 2012: 101 mins)
Kitchell, Mark. "Earth Day Special: Fierce Green Fire Documentary Explores Environmental Movement’s Global Rise." Democracy Now (April 22, 2014)
Weiwei, Ai. "China’s Artist/Enemy #1." Open Source (August 4, 2014)
All the Light in the Sky (USA: Joe Swanberg, 2012: 79 mins)
Erickson, Steven. "All the Light in the Sky: Upward, Outward." Keyframe (April 18, 2014)
American Mary (Canada: Jen Soska and Sylvia Soska, 2012: 102 mins)
Corriveau, Arielle. "A Spectacle of Modified Bodies: The Contemporary Grand-Guignolesque as a Feminist Challenge to Somatophobia in American Mary." Monstrum #2 (June 2019)
Amour (France/Germany/Austria: Micheal Haneke, 2012: 127 mins)
Dima, Vlad. "(Not) Love and Death: On Michael Haneke's Amour." Bright Lights Film Journal #80 (May 2013)
Anna Karenina (UK: Joe Wright, 2012: 129 mins)
Rafferty, Terrence. "Degrees of Infidelity to Tolstoy’s Heroine: Keira Knightley in Joe Wright’s ‘Anna Karenina’." The New York Times (November 4, 2012)
Arbitrage (USA/Poland: Nicolas Jarecki, 2012: 107 mins)
Pepe, Michael. "Eating, sleeping and watching movies in the shadow of what they do: Representing capitalism in post 2008 popular films." Jump Cut #57 (Fall 2016)
Artifact (USA: Jared Leto, 2012)
Fowler, Robert. "Artifact: A musician’s struggle against a giant corporation." World Socialist Web Site (November 19, 2012)
The Avengers (USA: Joss Whedon, 2012: 143 mins)
"The Avengers and Teamwork." Pop Culture Case Study (May 18, 2014)
Bleasdale, John. "Avengers Dissemble: A Polemic." Alternate Takes (June 10, 2012)
Witmer, John D. "Seamus McGarvey, ASC, BSC brings the Earth’s mightiest heroes to the big screen for Joss Whedon’s The Avengers." American Cinematographer (June 2012)
Being Flynn (USA: Paul Weitz, 2012: 102 mins)
Flynn, Nick, Rick Marinick and Anna Mundow. "Boston Noir." Radio Open Source (December 8, 2014)
Beware of Mr. Baker (USA: Jay Bulger, 2012: 100 mins)
Merrill, Tim, Bernard Stickwell and Wendy. "Beware of Mr. Baker." See Hear #12 (December 16, 2014) ["2013 documentary directed by Jay Bulger, “Beware of Mr Baker”, directed by Jay Bulger. Ginger Baker was a force of nature in the drumming world. He was admired for the extra helping of drum talent nature had provided him with, but this is not a man who puts up with nonsense – and his bullshit detector is up higher than most. It could be said that his bottle with the milk of human kindness went rancid before he had a chance to drink it. Tune in as the gang discusses Ginger’s life, how the director put his life in danger interviewing him, and whether the scientific evidence that all drummers are crotchety old bastards is accurate (NONSENSE….AND I’LL THRASH ANYONE WHO SAYS OTHERWISE)."]
Beyond the Hills (Romania/France/Belgium: Cristian Mungiu, 2012: 150 mins)
Mercer, Benjamin. "Beyond the Hills." Reverse Shot #33 (2013)
Brave (USA: Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman, and Steve Purcell, 2012: 93 mins)
Milico, Elliot. ""Metaphysics at the Movies: Hollywood's Philosophical Turn." Fare Forward (September 12, 2012)
Broche de Oro (Puerto Rico: Raúl Marchand Sánchez, 2012: 90 mins)
García-Crespo, Naida. "National identity, cultural institutions, and filmmaking in “paradise”— Puerto Rican successes of Talento de barrio and Broche de oro." Jump Cut #55 (Fall 2013)
Capital (France: Costa-Gravas, 2012: 114 mins)
O'Hehir, Andrew. "The movies’ surprising blind spot: Corporate greed." Salon (October 24, 2013)
The Central Park Five (USA: Ken Burns, Sarah Burns and David McMahon, 2012: 119 mins)
Burns, Sarah. "How to Build a Career in Documentary Filmmaking." TIFF Long Take #68 (June 5, 2018) ["This week on TIFF Long Take, Rob sits down with documentary filmmaker Sarah Burns, best known for her acclaimed film The Central Park Five, which she co-directed with her father, legendary documentarian Ken Burns, and her husband, David McMahon. Her second film, a documentary about Jackie Robinson, was released on PBS in 2016. Burns talks about what she learned growing up in a house full of filmmakers, why she initially resisted her parent’s career path, and how her connection to the Central Park jogger case came long before she began filmmaking. She also talks about the benefits and challenges of collaborating with your family, what the story of the Central Park Five represents in “Trump’s America,” and what her hopes are for Ava DuVernay’s upcoming dramatization of the story."]
Byfield, Natalie. "NYC’s $40M Central Park 5 Settlement Resolves Wrongful Jailing Fueled by Race-Baiting, Police Abuse." Democracy Now (June 20, 2014)
Detropia (USA: Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady, 2012: 90 mins)
Ellwand, Calina. "Motor City’s Gendered Shift: Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady’s Detropia." cléo 1.3 (November 28, 2013)
Mudede, Charles. "Flint Michigan and the American Way: Bad water, bankrupt Flint, and the hard fact about American poverty, as explained in DETROPIA." Keyframe (February 28, 2016)
Dredd (UK/USA/India/South Africa: Pete Travis, 2012: 95 mins)
Goodwin, Paul, et al. "Special Report: Future Shock - The Story of 2000 AD (2014)." The Projection Booth (February 2, 2017) ["Britain's ground-breaking 2000 AD comic introduced a raft of vital artists and writers along with indelible characters like Judge Dredd, Halo Jones, Strontium Dog, and more. The documentary Future Shock! The Story of 2000 AD (2014) tells the story of the ups and downs of this influential work. Director Paul Goodwin and producer Sean Hogan discuss the creation of Future Shock!. Josh Hadley joins Mike to reminisce about comics and the film adaptations of various 2000 AD stories."]
Elementary (CBS: Robert Doherty, 2012 - )
Heimbach, Alex. "Why Elementary's Joan is the Best Version of Watson." Vulture (May 6, 2016)
End of Watch (USA: David Ayer, 2012: 109 mins)
Trayton, John. "David Ayer's End of Watch (2012) and the Militarization of U.S. Law Enforcement." Bright Lights Film Journal #82 (November 2013)
Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare (USA/China/Germany: Susan Froemke and Matthew Heineman, 2012: 95 mins)
Heineman, Matthew. "Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare." Film School (October 4, 2012)
Exit Elena (USA: Nathan Silver, 2012: 72 mins)
Hudson, David. "Nathan Silver." Keyframe (April 18, 2014)
Found (USA: Scott Schirmer, 2012: 103 mins)
Gangs of Wasseypur (India: Anurag Kashyap, 2012: 321 mins)
Hurtado, J. "GANGS OF WASSEYPUR Is An Epic Experience Hamstrung By A Half-Assed DVD." Twitch (November 25, 2012)
Ginger and Rosa (UK/Denmark/Canada/Croatia: Sally Potter, 2012: 90 mins)
"Ginger and Rosa (UK) (2012)." The Case for Global Film (October 22, 2012)
Good Vibrations (UK/Ireland: Lisa Barros D'Sa and Glenn Leyburn, 2012: 103 mins)
Maurice Bursztynski and Hank Hellman. "Good Vibrations." See Hear #6 (June 22, 2014) ["Hank joined me to discuss the Northern Irish film from 2012 Good Vibrations. This covers the true story of Terri Hooley through the Seventies. In the midst of The Troubles in Belfast, Terri attempts to stop the violence between the local youth by opening a record store called Good Vibrations and by promoting local punk bands. THAT’S why we don’t have more peace in the world – too many record stores closing down!!! If this was presented as a work of fiction, you’d never believe someone would attempt it."]
The Great Flood (USA: Bill Morrison, 2012: 80 mins)
Dollar, Steve. "The Great Flood is Bill Morrison’s latest found-footage film to focus on disaster." The Washington Post (May 2, 2014)
Sandhu, Sukhdev. "American refugees: Bill Morrison’s The Great Flood." Sight and Sound (March 19, 2014) ["Bill Morrison, expert aesthetician of decay and disappearance, turns his attention to the forgotten flood that devastated interwar America."]
The House I Live In (Netherlands/UK/Germany/Japan/Australia/USA: Eugene Jarecki, 2012: 108 mins)
Jarecki, Eugene. "The House I Live In." Film School (October 12, 2012)
How to Survive a Plague (USA: David France, 2012: 120 mins)
France, David and Peter Staley. "How to Survive a Plague": As ACT UP Turns 25, New Film Chronicles History of AIDS Activism in U.S." Democracy Now (March 23, 2012)
The Hunger Games (USA: Gary Ross, 2012: 142 mins)
Hudson, David. "Gary Ross's Hunger Games The Daily (March 20-24, 2012)
The Hunt (Denmark/Sweden: Thomas Vinterberg, 2012: 115 mins)
Swinney, Jacob T. "12 Essential Women Cinematographers." Keyframe (August 10, 2016)
The Imposter (UK: Bart Layton, 2012: 99 mins)
In the House (France: Francois Ozon, 2012: 105 mins)
The Invisible War (USA: Kirby Dick, 2012: 93 mins)
Cioca, Kori, Kirby Dick and Trina McDonald. "The Invisible War: New Film Exposes Rape, Sexual Assault Epidemic in U.S. Military." Democracy Now (January 30, 2012)
John Carter (USA: Andrew Stanton, 2012: 132 mins)
Tafoya, Scout. "The Unloved: John Carter." (Posted on Vimeo: 2013)
John Dies at the End (USA: Don Coscarelli, 2012: 99 mins)
Barker, Thomas, et al. "John Dies at the End (2012)." The Projection Booth #326 (June 6, 2017) ["Based on a book by David Wong, Don Coscarelli's John Dies at the End (2012) stars Chase Williamsonas a character named David Wong while Rob Mayesplays the titular John. The film chronicles the otherworldly adventures of Dave and John as they ingest a new drug, Soy Sauce, and travel to other dimensions."]
McCalmont, Jonathan. "REVIEW – John Dies At The End (2012)." Ruthless Culture (February 3, 2014)
The Koch Brothers Exposed (USA: Robert Greenwald, 2012)
Greenwald, Robert. "Koch Brothers Exposed: The 1% at Its Very Worst." Uprising Radio (March 27, 2012)
Laurence Anyways (Canada/France: Xavier Dolan, 2012: 168 mins)
Lee, Kevin B. "Xavier Dolan: Love Bursts." Keyframe (June 19, 2015) ["Stylized moments in a majestic film, LAURENCE ANYWAYS."]
The Seventh Art. "Xavier Dolan." (Posted on Youtube: January 5, 2015)
Least Among Saints (USA: Martin Papazian, 2012: 107 mins)
Papazian, Martin. "Least Among Saints." Film School (October 19, 2012)
Leviathan (France/UK/USA: Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena Paravel, 2012: 87 mins)
Connor, Eamonn. "Diffractive Visions: Towards an Oceanic Trans-Corporeality in Leviathan." The Cine-Files #14 (Spring 2019)
Liv & Ingemar (Norway/Sweden/UK: Dheeraj Akolkar, 2012: 89 mins)
Brooks, Brian. "Liv Ullmann On Love, Passion, Isolation and Friendship in Documentary Liv & Ingmar." FilmLinc Daily (December 12, 2013)
Looper (USA/China: Rian Johnson, 2012: 119 mins)
Cummings, Alex Sayf. "Time, Fate, and the History of the Future in Looper." Tropics of Meta (October 22, 2012)
Framing the Picture: Duality in Looper from Matt Marlin on Vimeo.
The Lorax (USA: Chris Renaud and Kyle Balda, 2012: 86 mins)
Milico, Elliot. ""Metaphysics at the Movies: Hollywood's Philosophical Turn." Fare Forward (September 12, 2012)
The Lords of Salem (USA/UK/Canada: Rob Zombie, 2012: 101 mins)
Sarmiento, José. "Zombie’s World: Rob Zombie takes real pleasure in his craft. Can we?" Keyframe (October 19, 2016)
Lore (Germany/Australia/UK: Cate Shortland, 2012: 109 mins)
Tafoya, Scout. "The Post-Punk Cinema Manifesto." Keyframe (September 10, 2015)
Magic Mike (USA: Steven Soderbergh, 2012: 110 mins)
Flores, Steven. "The Auteurs: Steven Soderbergh (Part 1)." Cinema Axis (December 6, 2014)
---. "The Auteurs: Steven Soderbergh (Part 2)." Cinema Axis (December 7, 2014)
Hans, Simran. "Mike Drop – How Channing Tatum and President Obama redrew the template for masculinity." Little White Lies (November 6, 2016)
Middle of Nowhere (USA: Ava DuVernay, 2012: 97 mins)
Young, Bradford. "The Philosophy of Cinematography." The Film Stage (November 5, 2015) [Cinematographer for the films Selma (2014); A Most Violent Year (2014); Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2013); Middle of Nowhere (2012); Pariah (2011)]
Museum Hours (Austria/USA: Jem Cohen, 2012: 107 mins)
Helfand, Glen. "Jem Cohen: Memory and the Museum." Keyframe (June 19, 2013)
Neighboring Sounds (Brazil: Kleber Mendonça Filho, 2012: 131 mins)
Kizirian, Shari. "On the Street Where He Lives: Kleber Mendonça Filho films locally, stirs globally with Neighboring Sounds." Keyframe (January 13, 2014)
Pablo (USA: Richard Goldgewicht, 2012: 90 mins)
Heller, Steven. "Giving Credit to the Guy Who Revolutionized Movie Credits." The Atlantic (November 21, 2013)
Paradise: Faith (Austria/Germany/France: Ulrich Sedil, 2012: 115 mins)
Knauss, Stephanie. "The Paradise Trilogy: Love, Faith, Hope." Journal of Religion & Film 17.2 (October 2013)
Paranorman (USA: Chris Butler and Sam Fell, 2012: 92 mins)
Sabo, Lee Weston. "Abnormal Intelligence: Sam Fell and Chris Butler's ParaNorman." Bright Lights Film Journal #82 (November 2013)
Patience (After Sebald) (UK: Grant Gee, 2012: 86 mins)
Tafoya, Scout. "The Post-Punk Cinema Manifesto." Keyframe (September 10, 2015)
People's Park (USA: Libbie Dina Cohn and J.P. Sniadecki, 2012: 78 mins)
Balsom, Erika. "The Reality Based Community." e-flux #83 (2017)
The Pervert's Guide to Ideology (UK/Ireland: Sophie Fiennes, 2012: 136 mins)
Marshall, Colin. "Slavoj Žižek’s Pervert’s Guide to Ideology Decodes The Dark Knight and They Live." Open Culture (September 30, 2013)
Post Tenebras Lux (Mexico/France/Netherlands/Germany: Carlos Reygadas, 2012: 115 mins)
Foster, Gwendolyn Audrey. "The Politics of Critical Reception and the Marxist Feminist Sublime in Carlos Reygadas’ Post Tenebras Lux." Film International (July 8, 2013)
Reichert, Jeff. "Into the Wild: Post Tenebras Lux." Reverse Shot #33 (2013)
Amour (France/Germany/Austria: Micheal Haneke, 2012: 127 mins)
Dima, Vlad. "(Not) Love and Death: On Michael Haneke's Amour." Bright Lights Film Journal #80 (May 2013)
Anna Karenina (UK: Joe Wright, 2012: 129 mins)
Rafferty, Terrence. "Degrees of Infidelity to Tolstoy’s Heroine: Keira Knightley in Joe Wright’s ‘Anna Karenina’." The New York Times (November 4, 2012)
Arbitrage (USA/Poland: Nicolas Jarecki, 2012: 107 mins)
Pepe, Michael. "Eating, sleeping and watching movies in the shadow of what they do: Representing capitalism in post 2008 popular films." Jump Cut #57 (Fall 2016)
Fowler, Robert. "Artifact: A musician’s struggle against a giant corporation." World Socialist Web Site (November 19, 2012)
The Avengers (USA: Joss Whedon, 2012: 143 mins)
"The Avengers and Teamwork." Pop Culture Case Study (May 18, 2014)
Bleasdale, John. "Avengers Dissemble: A Polemic." Alternate Takes (June 10, 2012)
Witmer, John D. "Seamus McGarvey, ASC, BSC brings the Earth’s mightiest heroes to the big screen for Joss Whedon’s The Avengers." American Cinematographer (June 2012)
Being Flynn (USA: Paul Weitz, 2012: 102 mins)
Flynn, Nick, Rick Marinick and Anna Mundow. "Boston Noir." Radio Open Source (December 8, 2014)
Beware of Mr. Baker (USA: Jay Bulger, 2012: 100 mins)
Merrill, Tim, Bernard Stickwell and Wendy. "Beware of Mr. Baker." See Hear #12 (December 16, 2014) ["2013 documentary directed by Jay Bulger, “Beware of Mr Baker”, directed by Jay Bulger. Ginger Baker was a force of nature in the drumming world. He was admired for the extra helping of drum talent nature had provided him with, but this is not a man who puts up with nonsense – and his bullshit detector is up higher than most. It could be said that his bottle with the milk of human kindness went rancid before he had a chance to drink it. Tune in as the gang discusses Ginger’s life, how the director put his life in danger interviewing him, and whether the scientific evidence that all drummers are crotchety old bastards is accurate (NONSENSE….AND I’LL THRASH ANYONE WHO SAYS OTHERWISE)."]
Mercer, Benjamin. "Beyond the Hills." Reverse Shot #33 (2013)
Brave (USA: Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman, and Steve Purcell, 2012: 93 mins)
Milico, Elliot. ""Metaphysics at the Movies: Hollywood's Philosophical Turn." Fare Forward (September 12, 2012)
Broche de Oro (Puerto Rico: Raúl Marchand Sánchez, 2012: 90 mins)
García-Crespo, Naida. "National identity, cultural institutions, and filmmaking in “paradise”— Puerto Rican successes of Talento de barrio and Broche de oro." Jump Cut #55 (Fall 2013)
Capital (France: Costa-Gravas, 2012: 114 mins)
O'Hehir, Andrew. "The movies’ surprising blind spot: Corporate greed." Salon (October 24, 2013)
The Central Park Five (USA: Ken Burns, Sarah Burns and David McMahon, 2012: 119 mins)
Burns, Sarah. "How to Build a Career in Documentary Filmmaking." TIFF Long Take #68 (June 5, 2018) ["This week on TIFF Long Take, Rob sits down with documentary filmmaker Sarah Burns, best known for her acclaimed film The Central Park Five, which she co-directed with her father, legendary documentarian Ken Burns, and her husband, David McMahon. Her second film, a documentary about Jackie Robinson, was released on PBS in 2016. Burns talks about what she learned growing up in a house full of filmmakers, why she initially resisted her parent’s career path, and how her connection to the Central Park jogger case came long before she began filmmaking. She also talks about the benefits and challenges of collaborating with your family, what the story of the Central Park Five represents in “Trump’s America,” and what her hopes are for Ava DuVernay’s upcoming dramatization of the story."]
Byfield, Natalie. "NYC’s $40M Central Park 5 Settlement Resolves Wrongful Jailing Fueled by Race-Baiting, Police Abuse." Democracy Now (June 20, 2014)
Detropia (USA: Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady, 2012: 90 mins)
Ellwand, Calina. "Motor City’s Gendered Shift: Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady’s Detropia." cléo 1.3 (November 28, 2013)
Dredd (UK/USA/India/South Africa: Pete Travis, 2012: 95 mins)
Goodwin, Paul, et al. "Special Report: Future Shock - The Story of 2000 AD (2014)." The Projection Booth (February 2, 2017) ["Britain's ground-breaking 2000 AD comic introduced a raft of vital artists and writers along with indelible characters like Judge Dredd, Halo Jones, Strontium Dog, and more. The documentary Future Shock! The Story of 2000 AD (2014) tells the story of the ups and downs of this influential work. Director Paul Goodwin and producer Sean Hogan discuss the creation of Future Shock!. Josh Hadley joins Mike to reminisce about comics and the film adaptations of various 2000 AD stories."]
Heimbach, Alex. "Why Elementary's Joan is the Best Version of Watson." Vulture (May 6, 2016)
End of Watch (USA: David Ayer, 2012: 109 mins)
Trayton, John. "David Ayer's End of Watch (2012) and the Militarization of U.S. Law Enforcement." Bright Lights Film Journal #82 (November 2013)
Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare (USA/China/Germany: Susan Froemke and Matthew Heineman, 2012: 95 mins)
Heineman, Matthew. "Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare." Film School (October 4, 2012)
Exit Elena (USA: Nathan Silver, 2012: 72 mins)
Hudson, David. "Nathan Silver." Keyframe (April 18, 2014)
Found (USA: Scott Schirmer, 2012: 103 mins)
Bradley, S.A and Derrick Carey. "All The Sins of the World: Extreme Horror." Hellbent for Horror #53 (September 14, 2017)
["Extreme Horror Films: they are the "Elephant in the Room" for horror fans. These films push the limits of the viewer to such the extent that they even divide the horror community on whether they go too far. A large majority of these films have little, or no, socially redeeming value. And yet... There are a few extreme films that use the violence, and obscenity, and nihilism to create something that defies expectations and becomes something horrible/beautiful. For those who dare to watch. ... Movies Discussed: Cannibal Holocaust (1980) Irreversible (2002) Scrapbook (2000) Martyrs (2008) Found (2012)"]
["Extreme Horror Films: they are the "Elephant in the Room" for horror fans. These films push the limits of the viewer to such the extent that they even divide the horror community on whether they go too far. A large majority of these films have little, or no, socially redeeming value. And yet... There are a few extreme films that use the violence, and obscenity, and nihilism to create something that defies expectations and becomes something horrible/beautiful. For those who dare to watch. ... Movies Discussed: Cannibal Holocaust (1980) Irreversible (2002) Scrapbook (2000) Martyrs (2008) Found (2012)"]
Hurtado, J. "GANGS OF WASSEYPUR Is An Epic Experience Hamstrung By A Half-Assed DVD." Twitch (November 25, 2012)
Ginger and Rosa (UK/Denmark/Canada/Croatia: Sally Potter, 2012: 90 mins)
"Ginger and Rosa (UK) (2012)." The Case for Global Film (October 22, 2012)
Good Vibrations (UK/Ireland: Lisa Barros D'Sa and Glenn Leyburn, 2012: 103 mins)
Maurice Bursztynski and Hank Hellman. "Good Vibrations." See Hear #6 (June 22, 2014) ["Hank joined me to discuss the Northern Irish film from 2012 Good Vibrations. This covers the true story of Terri Hooley through the Seventies. In the midst of The Troubles in Belfast, Terri attempts to stop the violence between the local youth by opening a record store called Good Vibrations and by promoting local punk bands. THAT’S why we don’t have more peace in the world – too many record stores closing down!!! If this was presented as a work of fiction, you’d never believe someone would attempt it."]
Dollar, Steve. "The Great Flood is Bill Morrison’s latest found-footage film to focus on disaster." The Washington Post (May 2, 2014)
Sandhu, Sukhdev. "American refugees: Bill Morrison’s The Great Flood." Sight and Sound (March 19, 2014) ["Bill Morrison, expert aesthetician of decay and disappearance, turns his attention to the forgotten flood that devastated interwar America."]
The House I Live In (Netherlands/UK/Germany/Japan/Australia/USA: Eugene Jarecki, 2012: 108 mins)
Jarecki, Eugene. "The House I Live In." Film School (October 12, 2012)
How to Survive a Plague (USA: David France, 2012: 120 mins)
France, David and Peter Staley. "How to Survive a Plague": As ACT UP Turns 25, New Film Chronicles History of AIDS Activism in U.S." Democracy Now (March 23, 2012)
The Hunger Games (USA: Gary Ross, 2012: 142 mins)
Hudson, David. "Gary Ross's Hunger Games The Daily (March 20-24, 2012)
The Hunt (Denmark/Sweden: Thomas Vinterberg, 2012: 115 mins)
Swinney, Jacob T. "12 Essential Women Cinematographers." Keyframe (August 10, 2016)
The Imposter (UK: Bart Layton, 2012: 99 mins)
In the House (France: Francois Ozon, 2012: 105 mins)
Flores, Steven. "The Auteurs: Francois Ozon." Cinema Axis (May 20, 2014)
Cioca, Kori, Kirby Dick and Trina McDonald. "The Invisible War: New Film Exposes Rape, Sexual Assault Epidemic in U.S. Military." Democracy Now (January 30, 2012)
John Carter (USA: Andrew Stanton, 2012: 132 mins)
Tafoya, Scout. "The Unloved: John Carter." (Posted on Vimeo: 2013)
John Dies at the End (USA: Don Coscarelli, 2012: 99 mins)
Barker, Thomas, et al. "John Dies at the End (2012)." The Projection Booth #326 (June 6, 2017) ["Based on a book by David Wong, Don Coscarelli's John Dies at the End (2012) stars Chase Williamsonas a character named David Wong while Rob Mayesplays the titular John. The film chronicles the otherworldly adventures of Dave and John as they ingest a new drug, Soy Sauce, and travel to other dimensions."]
The Koch Brothers Exposed (USA: Robert Greenwald, 2012)
Greenwald, Robert. "Koch Brothers Exposed: The 1% at Its Very Worst." Uprising Radio (March 27, 2012)
Laurence Anyways (Canada/France: Xavier Dolan, 2012: 168 mins)
Lee, Kevin B. "Xavier Dolan: Love Bursts." Keyframe (June 19, 2015) ["Stylized moments in a majestic film, LAURENCE ANYWAYS."]
The Seventh Art. "Xavier Dolan." (Posted on Youtube: January 5, 2015)
Least Among Saints (USA: Martin Papazian, 2012: 107 mins)
Papazian, Martin. "Least Among Saints." Film School (October 19, 2012)
Leviathan (France/UK/USA: Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena Paravel, 2012: 87 mins)
Connor, Eamonn. "Diffractive Visions: Towards an Oceanic Trans-Corporeality in Leviathan." The Cine-Files #14 (Spring 2019)
Liv & Ingemar (Norway/Sweden/UK: Dheeraj Akolkar, 2012: 89 mins)
Brooks, Brian. "Liv Ullmann On Love, Passion, Isolation and Friendship in Documentary Liv & Ingmar." FilmLinc Daily (December 12, 2013)
Cummings, Alex Sayf. "Time, Fate, and the History of the Future in Looper." Tropics of Meta (October 22, 2012)
The Lorax (USA: Chris Renaud and Kyle Balda, 2012: 86 mins)
Milico, Elliot. ""Metaphysics at the Movies: Hollywood's Philosophical Turn." Fare Forward (September 12, 2012)
The Lords of Salem (USA/UK/Canada: Rob Zombie, 2012: 101 mins)
Sarmiento, José. "Zombie’s World: Rob Zombie takes real pleasure in his craft. Can we?" Keyframe (October 19, 2016)
Tafoya, Scout. "The Post-Punk Cinema Manifesto." Keyframe (September 10, 2015)
Magic Mike (USA: Steven Soderbergh, 2012: 110 mins)
Flores, Steven. "The Auteurs: Steven Soderbergh (Part 1)." Cinema Axis (December 6, 2014)
---. "The Auteurs: Steven Soderbergh (Part 2)." Cinema Axis (December 7, 2014)
Hans, Simran. "Mike Drop – How Channing Tatum and President Obama redrew the template for masculinity." Little White Lies (November 6, 2016)
Middle of Nowhere (USA: Ava DuVernay, 2012: 97 mins)
Young, Bradford. "The Philosophy of Cinematography." The Film Stage (November 5, 2015) [Cinematographer for the films Selma (2014); A Most Violent Year (2014); Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2013); Middle of Nowhere (2012); Pariah (2011)]
Museum Hours (Austria/USA: Jem Cohen, 2012: 107 mins)
Helfand, Glen. "Jem Cohen: Memory and the Museum." Keyframe (June 19, 2013)
Neighboring Sounds (Brazil: Kleber Mendonça Filho, 2012: 131 mins)
Kizirian, Shari. "On the Street Where He Lives: Kleber Mendonça Filho films locally, stirs globally with Neighboring Sounds." Keyframe (January 13, 2014)
Pablo (USA: Richard Goldgewicht, 2012: 90 mins)
Heller, Steven. "Giving Credit to the Guy Who Revolutionized Movie Credits." The Atlantic (November 21, 2013)
Paradise: Faith (Austria/Germany/France: Ulrich Sedil, 2012: 115 mins)
Knauss, Stephanie. "The Paradise Trilogy: Love, Faith, Hope." Journal of Religion & Film 17.2 (October 2013)
Paranorman (USA: Chris Butler and Sam Fell, 2012: 92 mins)
Sabo, Lee Weston. "Abnormal Intelligence: Sam Fell and Chris Butler's ParaNorman." Bright Lights Film Journal #82 (November 2013)
Patience (After Sebald) (UK: Grant Gee, 2012: 86 mins)
Tafoya, Scout. "The Post-Punk Cinema Manifesto." Keyframe (September 10, 2015)
People's Park (USA: Libbie Dina Cohn and J.P. Sniadecki, 2012: 78 mins)
Balsom, Erika. "The Reality Based Community." e-flux #83 (2017)
Marshall, Colin. "Slavoj Žižek’s Pervert’s Guide to Ideology Decodes The Dark Knight and They Live." Open Culture (September 30, 2013)
Post Tenebras Lux (Mexico/France/Netherlands/Germany: Carlos Reygadas, 2012: 115 mins)
Foster, Gwendolyn Audrey. "The Politics of Critical Reception and the Marxist Feminist Sublime in Carlos Reygadas’ Post Tenebras Lux." Film International (July 8, 2013)
Public Hearing (USA: James N. Kienitz Wilkins, 2012)
Dallas, Paul. "Lost in Translation: Public Hearing." Filmmaker (March 7, 2014)
Reality (Italy/France: Matteo Garrone, 2012: 116 mins)
Jenkins, Steven. "Grande Fratello Is Watching You: Matteo Garrone’s tough guys, little men and scheming dreamers face up to reality." Keyframe (February 14, 2014)
The Reluctant Fundamentalist (USA/UK/Qatar: Mira Nair, 2012: 130 mins)
Framing the Picture: Perspectives on Islamophobia in American Sniper and The Reluctant Fundamentalist from Matt Marlin on Vimeo.
Resolution (USA: Justin Benson and Aaron Moorehead, 2012: 93 mins)
Ajram, Sofia. "Monstrum Montreal Time-Loop Lecture." Personal Website (November 2019)
Rust and Bone (France/Belgium: Jacques Audiard, 2012: 120 mins)
O'Malley, Sheila. "Present Tense: Matthias Schoenaerts." Film Comment (September 12, 2019)
Sobchack, Vivian. "What My Fingers Knew: The Cinesthetic Subject, or Vision in the Flesh." Senses of Cinema (April 2000)
Searching for Sugarman (Swedden/UK/Finland: Malik Bendjelloul, 2012: 86 mins)
Bendjelloul, Malik. "Director of Searching for Sugarman." Film School (August 17, 2012)
The Sessions (USA: Ben Lewin, 2012: 95 mins)
Rochlin, Margy. "Who’s That Man in the Iron Lung? John Hawkes Brings Years of Film Work to The Sessions." Democracy Now (October 14, 2012)
Silver Linings Playbook (USA: David O. Russell, 2012: 122 mins)
Johnson, Mackenzie. "What Makes David O. Russell so David O. Russell." Film Stage (October 17, 2016)
Weetch, Owen. "The Healthy Lie of Silver Linings Playbook." Alternate Takes (January 16, 2013)
The Skin I Am In (USA/Canada/Germany/Japan: Broderick Fox, 2012: 86 mins)
Gerhard, Susan. "Skin Deep and Deeper: Personal documentary filmmaker Broderick Fox talks identity, technology, body art and aesthetic legacies." Keyframe (April 24, 2014)
Skyfall (UK/USA: Sam Mendes, 2012: 143 mins)
Alpert, Robert. "Skyfall: A Mother and Her Twin Boys." Jump Cut #55 (Fall 2013)
Smashed (USA: James Ponsoldt, 2012: 81 mins)
Ponsoldt, James. "Smashed." Film School (October 12, 2012)
Snow White and the Huntsman (USA: Rupert Sanders, 2012: 127 mins)
Heath, Roderick. "Snow White and the Huntsman (2012)." Ferdy on Film (July 23, 2012)
Milico, Elliot. ""Metaphysics at the Movies: Hollywood's Philosophical Turn." Fare Forward (September 12, 2012)
Stories We Tell (Canada: Sarah Polley, 2012: 108 mins)
Anderst, Leah. "Memory’s Chorus: Stories We Tell and Sarah Polley’s Theory of Autobiography." Senses of Cinema #69 (December 2013)
Sun Don't Shine (USA: Amy Seimetz, 2012: 90 mins)
Lee, Kevin B. "The Soundless Fury of Kate Lyn Shell." (Posted on Vimeo: February 2017)
Tabu (Portugal/Germany/Brazil/France: Miguel Gomes, 2012: 118 mins)
Martin, Adrian. "Dust of Time: Tabu." Keyframe (February 6, 2014)
"Miguel Gomes." The Seventh Art #7 (September 2012)
Viola (Argentina/USA: Matías Piñeiro, 2012: 65 mins)
Nayman, Adam. "Such Stuff as Dreams are Made On: Viola." Reverse Shot #33 (2013)
Viola Critics Round Up (Ongoing Archive)
We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists (USA/UK: Brian Knappenberger, 2012: 93 mins)
Brown, Barrett and Glenn Greenwald. "Jailed Reporter Barrett Brown on Press Freedom, FBI Crimes & Why He Wouldn't Do Anything Differently." Democracy Now (May 12, 2017)
Wolf Children (Japan: Mamoru Hosoda, 2012: 117 mins)
You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet (France/Germany: Alain Resnais, 2012: 115 mins)
Phelps, David. "Virtual Refractions 2.0: Notes on Alain Resnais' Vous n'avez encore rien vu." Notebook (October 15, 2013)
Williams, Blake. You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet (Alain Resnais, France) Cinema-Scope #54 (2013)
2013:
47 Ronin (USA: Carl Rinsch, 2013: 128 mins)
El Goro. "The Forbidden Kingdom (2008) and 47 Ronin (2013)." Talk Without Rhythm #358 (February 19, 2017)
Abuse of Weakness (France/Germany/Belgium: Catherine Breillat, 2013: 105 mins)
Richter, Nicole. "Filming the Impossible: An Interview with Catherine Breillat." Reverse Shot (May 19, 2015)
A Field in England (UK: Ben Wheatley, 2013: 90 mins)
A Field in England Critics Round Up (Ongoing Archive)
Tafoya, Scout. "The Post-Punk Cinema Manifesto." Keyframe (September 10, 2015)
Wheatley, Ben. "A Field in England." The Seventh Art #19 (March 2014)
Ain't Them Bodies Saints (USA: David Lowery, 2013: 96 mins)
Young, Bradford. "The Philosophy of Cinematography." The Film Stage (November 5, 2015) [Cinematographer for the films Selma (2014); A Most Violent Year (2014); Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2013); Middle of Nowhere (2012); Pariah (2011)]
All is Lost (USA: J.C. Chandor, 2013: 106 mins)
Swinney, Jacob T. "The Final Shot: Fading to White." Fandor (November 30, 2018)
A Master Builder (USA: Jonathan Demme, 2013: 130 mins)
Demme, Jonathan, et al. "A Master Builder." Film Forum (July 23, 2014) [“The dynamic duo behind MY DINNER WITH ANDRÉ and VANYA on 42ND STREET take on another classic of the stage… With Jonathan Demme replacing the late Louis Malle at the helm, this terrifically performed version of The Master Builder… channels the rage, joy and delusions of an aging architect’s final days. A dense and occasionally poetic chamber piece… Shawn acutely conveys a character whose wickedness, which can be both flagrant and underhanded, is as towering as the weakness that consumes him during his last breaths, painting the portrait of a man who’s both remarkably self-consumed and constantly racked by fear and guilt. (Lisa Joyce’s) scenes opposite Shawn are among the film’s richest, filled with a mix of lust and loathing, while creating a sense of disembodiment that will haunt the final acts.” – Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter]
American Arab (USA: Usama Alshaibi, 2013: 63 mins)
Alshaibi, Usama. "Nice Bombs & American Arab." Indie Beat (March 8, 2017) ["Our guest is filmmaker/teacher Usama Alshaibi, an Iraqi-American located in Boulder, Colorado. In 2003, the director went to US-occupied Baghdad and shot his first feature-length documentary “Nice Bombs.” Part political non-fiction and part video diary, the movie is both a layered look at the Iraq War and a unique, intimate look at a place (and people) that are unfortunately not offered such a profile in other films observing the post-9/11 world. ... Afterwards Alshaibi made a number of short films and hit another pulse with his second documentary “American Arab” which deals with bigotry in the US. The filmmaker profiles a number of people, discussing their day-to-day experience when everyone thinks you’re the enemy. A considerable portion of the movie also details the brutal assault that Alshaibi experienced, himself a victim of racism. At the moment the director is preparing his third feature, “Boy From War,” which will look back on his time living in Iraq during their war with Iran, and it will feature animation similar to “Waltz With Bashir.” On the podcast we spoke about the negative perception of Arabs and Muslims, film and TV’s role in perpetuating it, the exhaustion of fighting it, filmmaking as a father, and the power of animation."]
A Most Violent Year (USA/United Arab Emirates: J.C. Chandor, 2013: 125 mins)
Young, Bradford. "The Philosophy of Cinematography." The Film Stage (November 5, 2015) [Cinematographer for the films Selma (2014); A Most Violent Year (2014); Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2013); Middle of Nowhere (2012); Pariah (2011)]
Anchorman II: The Legend Continues. (USA: Adam McKay, 2013: 119 mins)
Rivard, Ryan. Anchorman II: An Expose in Truth Dialogic Cinephilia (April 13, 2015)
At Berkeley (USA: Frederick Wiseman, 2013: 244 mins)
"Frederick Wiseman." The Close-Up #149 (September 20, 2017) ["First, Wiseman shares his thoughts on his work, the issues and implications of his films, and his process in a special master class from 2006. After that, the director discusses his 2013 film, At Berkeley, in one of our HBO Directors Dialogues from the 51st New York Film Festival."]
Wiseman, Frederick. "Frederick Wiseman." Indiewire Filmmaker Toolkit (April 19, 2017) ["One of the greatest filmmakers ever reflects on his career and his well refined process of making a masterpiece virtually every year. He explains why 50 years ago, as a lawyer in his 30s, he decided to make a film about a prison for the criminally insane ("Titicut Follies") and how he grew as an artist."]
A Teacher (USA: Hannah Fidell, 2013: 75 mins)
Banshee Chapter (Germany/USA: Blair Erickson, 2013: 87 mins)
Bradley, S.A. "You Will Be Assimilated: Science Fiction and Horror." Hellbent for Horror #32 (February 8, 2017)
Blue Jasmine (USA: Woody Allen, 2013: 98 mins)
Allen, Woody, et al. "Blue Jasmine: In a private chat, the writer-director discusses money, status and Cate Blanchett's seismic performance." Time Out (December 11, 2013)
Cobb, Thomas. "Blue Jasmine and the Great Recession: Paean for Our National Nightmares." Bright Lights Film Journal #82 (November 2013)
Burning Bush (Czech Republic: Agnieszka Holland, TV Miniseries 2013: 3 episodes)
Tafoya, Scout. "The Post-Punk Cinema Manifesto." Keyframe (September 10, 2015)
Camille Claudel 1915 (France: Bruno Dumont, 2013: 95 mins)
Sachs, Ben. "From Mamma Roma to Mamma Alien." The Chicago Reader (April 16, 2014)
Captain Phillips (USA: Paul Greengrass, 2013: 134 mins)
Natoli, Joseph. "Captain Phillips: Colliding with the Real." Senses of Cinema #63 (December 2013)
Ventura, Elbert. "Lost at Sea: Captain Phillips." Reverse Shot #33 (2013)
Clear History (USA: Greg Morrola, 2013: 100 mins)
Yudin, Katy. "Clear History." Forget the Film, Watch the Titles (September 4, 2013)
Coherence (USA/UK: James Ward Byrkit, 2013: 89 mins)
Bradley, S.A. "You Will Be Assimilated: Science Fiction and Horror." Hellbent for Horror #32 (February 8, 2017)
Romney, Jonathan. "Inside Your Head: Conceptual Science Fiction." Sight and Sound (February 24, 2015)
Cosmic Psychos: Blokes You Can Trust (Australia: Matt Weston, 2013: 95 mins)
Bursztynski, Maurice, et al. "Cosmic Psychos, Blokes You Can Trust." See Hear #15 (March 25, 2015) ["Australian documentary from 2013 Cosmic Psychos - Blokes You Can Trust. The band started out in the early 1980s in the state of Victoria and (albeit not with the same lineup) are still around in 2015. Bands and artists such as Eddie Vedder, King Buzzo (The Melvins), Mudhoney, L7 and Butch Vig all line up not only to sing the Psychos' praises, but to tell their own personal stories from the road travelling with the band. They all convincingly state the case that the Seattle Grunge sound started in Melbourne with the Cosmic Psychos. Director Matt Weston has combined interviews about tales on the road and hedonism with fatherhood, weightlifting, dealing with divorce, tragedy, bondage.....and tractors. Yes, the band might seem to have the usual Spinal Tap type hijinks (don't fall asleep when your bandmate has a salmon in his suitcase), but this film does far more to show a tale of real people and the human influence the leave as well as the music influence."]
Devil's Knot (USA: Atom Egoyan, 2013: 114 mins)
Nicholson, Amy. "Atom Egoyan Talks About His New West Memphis Three Movie Devil's Knot." LA Weekly (May 8, 2014)
Enemy (Canada/Spain: Denis Villeneuve, 2013: 90 mins)
Ajram, Sofia. "Monstrum Montreal Time-Loop Lecture." Personal Website (November 2019)
O'Malley, Sheila. "Present Tense: Matthias Schoenaerts." Film Comment (September 12, 2019)
Sobchack, Vivian. "What My Fingers Knew: The Cinesthetic Subject, or Vision in the Flesh." Senses of Cinema (April 2000)
Searching for Sugarman (Swedden/UK/Finland: Malik Bendjelloul, 2012: 86 mins)
Bendjelloul, Malik. "Director of Searching for Sugarman." Film School (August 17, 2012)
The Sessions (USA: Ben Lewin, 2012: 95 mins)
Rochlin, Margy. "Who’s That Man in the Iron Lung? John Hawkes Brings Years of Film Work to The Sessions." Democracy Now (October 14, 2012)
Silver Linings Playbook (USA: David O. Russell, 2012: 122 mins)
Johnson, Mackenzie. "What Makes David O. Russell so David O. Russell." Film Stage (October 17, 2016)
The Skin I Am In (USA/Canada/Germany/Japan: Broderick Fox, 2012: 86 mins)
Gerhard, Susan. "Skin Deep and Deeper: Personal documentary filmmaker Broderick Fox talks identity, technology, body art and aesthetic legacies." Keyframe (April 24, 2014)
Skyfall (UK/USA: Sam Mendes, 2012: 143 mins)
Alpert, Robert. "Skyfall: A Mother and Her Twin Boys." Jump Cut #55 (Fall 2013)
Smashed (USA: James Ponsoldt, 2012: 81 mins)
Ponsoldt, James. "Smashed." Film School (October 12, 2012)
Snow White and the Huntsman (USA: Rupert Sanders, 2012: 127 mins)
Heath, Roderick. "Snow White and the Huntsman (2012)." Ferdy on Film (July 23, 2012)
Milico, Elliot. ""Metaphysics at the Movies: Hollywood's Philosophical Turn." Fare Forward (September 12, 2012)
Stories We Tell (Canada: Sarah Polley, 2012: 108 mins)
Anderst, Leah. "Memory’s Chorus: Stories We Tell and Sarah Polley’s Theory of Autobiography." Senses of Cinema #69 (December 2013)
Sun Don't Shine (USA: Amy Seimetz, 2012: 90 mins)
Lee, Kevin B. "The Soundless Fury of Kate Lyn Shell." (Posted on Vimeo: February 2017)
Tabu (Portugal/Germany/Brazil/France: Miguel Gomes, 2012: 118 mins)
Martin, Adrian. "Dust of Time: Tabu." Keyframe (February 6, 2014)
"Miguel Gomes." The Seventh Art #7 (September 2012)
Viola (Argentina/USA: Matías Piñeiro, 2012: 65 mins)
Nayman, Adam. "Such Stuff as Dreams are Made On: Viola." Reverse Shot #33 (2013)
Viola Critics Round Up (Ongoing Archive)
We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists (USA/UK: Brian Knappenberger, 2012: 93 mins)
Brown, Barrett and Glenn Greenwald. "Jailed Reporter Barrett Brown on Press Freedom, FBI Crimes & Why He Wouldn't Do Anything Differently." Democracy Now (May 12, 2017)
Wolf Children (Japan: Mamoru Hosoda, 2012: 117 mins)
You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet (France/Germany: Alain Resnais, 2012: 115 mins)
Phelps, David. "Virtual Refractions 2.0: Notes on Alain Resnais' Vous n'avez encore rien vu." Notebook (October 15, 2013)
Williams, Blake. You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet (Alain Resnais, France) Cinema-Scope #54 (2013)
2013:
47 Ronin (USA: Carl Rinsch, 2013: 128 mins)
El Goro. "The Forbidden Kingdom (2008) and 47 Ronin (2013)." Talk Without Rhythm #358 (February 19, 2017)
Richter, Nicole. "Filming the Impossible: An Interview with Catherine Breillat." Reverse Shot (May 19, 2015)
A Field in England (UK: Ben Wheatley, 2013: 90 mins)
A Field in England Critics Round Up (Ongoing Archive)
Tafoya, Scout. "The Post-Punk Cinema Manifesto." Keyframe (September 10, 2015)
Wheatley, Ben. "A Field in England." The Seventh Art #19 (March 2014)
Ain't Them Bodies Saints (USA: David Lowery, 2013: 96 mins)
Young, Bradford. "The Philosophy of Cinematography." The Film Stage (November 5, 2015) [Cinematographer for the films Selma (2014); A Most Violent Year (2014); Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2013); Middle of Nowhere (2012); Pariah (2011)]
All is Lost (USA: J.C. Chandor, 2013: 106 mins)
Swinney, Jacob T. "The Final Shot: Fading to White." Fandor (November 30, 2018)
Demme, Jonathan, et al. "A Master Builder." Film Forum (July 23, 2014) [“The dynamic duo behind MY DINNER WITH ANDRÉ and VANYA on 42ND STREET take on another classic of the stage… With Jonathan Demme replacing the late Louis Malle at the helm, this terrifically performed version of The Master Builder… channels the rage, joy and delusions of an aging architect’s final days. A dense and occasionally poetic chamber piece… Shawn acutely conveys a character whose wickedness, which can be both flagrant and underhanded, is as towering as the weakness that consumes him during his last breaths, painting the portrait of a man who’s both remarkably self-consumed and constantly racked by fear and guilt. (Lisa Joyce’s) scenes opposite Shawn are among the film’s richest, filled with a mix of lust and loathing, while creating a sense of disembodiment that will haunt the final acts.” – Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter]
Alshaibi, Usama. "Nice Bombs & American Arab." Indie Beat (March 8, 2017) ["Our guest is filmmaker/teacher Usama Alshaibi, an Iraqi-American located in Boulder, Colorado. In 2003, the director went to US-occupied Baghdad and shot his first feature-length documentary “Nice Bombs.” Part political non-fiction and part video diary, the movie is both a layered look at the Iraq War and a unique, intimate look at a place (and people) that are unfortunately not offered such a profile in other films observing the post-9/11 world. ... Afterwards Alshaibi made a number of short films and hit another pulse with his second documentary “American Arab” which deals with bigotry in the US. The filmmaker profiles a number of people, discussing their day-to-day experience when everyone thinks you’re the enemy. A considerable portion of the movie also details the brutal assault that Alshaibi experienced, himself a victim of racism. At the moment the director is preparing his third feature, “Boy From War,” which will look back on his time living in Iraq during their war with Iran, and it will feature animation similar to “Waltz With Bashir.” On the podcast we spoke about the negative perception of Arabs and Muslims, film and TV’s role in perpetuating it, the exhaustion of fighting it, filmmaking as a father, and the power of animation."]
Young, Bradford. "The Philosophy of Cinematography." The Film Stage (November 5, 2015) [Cinematographer for the films Selma (2014); A Most Violent Year (2014); Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2013); Middle of Nowhere (2012); Pariah (2011)]
Anchorman II: The Legend Continues. (USA: Adam McKay, 2013: 119 mins)
Rivard, Ryan. Anchorman II: An Expose in Truth Dialogic Cinephilia (April 13, 2015)
At Berkeley (USA: Frederick Wiseman, 2013: 244 mins)
"Frederick Wiseman." The Close-Up #149 (September 20, 2017) ["First, Wiseman shares his thoughts on his work, the issues and implications of his films, and his process in a special master class from 2006. After that, the director discusses his 2013 film, At Berkeley, in one of our HBO Directors Dialogues from the 51st New York Film Festival."]
Banshee Chapter (Germany/USA: Blair Erickson, 2013: 87 mins)
Bradley, S.A. "You Will Be Assimilated: Science Fiction and Horror." Hellbent for Horror #32 (February 8, 2017)
Blue Jasmine (USA: Woody Allen, 2013: 98 mins)
Allen, Woody, et al. "Blue Jasmine: In a private chat, the writer-director discusses money, status and Cate Blanchett's seismic performance." Time Out (December 11, 2013)
Burning Bush (Czech Republic: Agnieszka Holland, TV Miniseries 2013: 3 episodes)
Tafoya, Scout. "The Post-Punk Cinema Manifesto." Keyframe (September 10, 2015)
Camille Claudel 1915 (France: Bruno Dumont, 2013: 95 mins)
Sachs, Ben. "From Mamma Roma to Mamma Alien." The Chicago Reader (April 16, 2014)
Natoli, Joseph. "Captain Phillips: Colliding with the Real." Senses of Cinema #63 (December 2013)
Ventura, Elbert. "Lost at Sea: Captain Phillips." Reverse Shot #33 (2013)
Clear History (USA: Greg Morrola, 2013: 100 mins)
Yudin, Katy. "Clear History." Forget the Film, Watch the Titles (September 4, 2013)
Coherence (USA/UK: James Ward Byrkit, 2013: 89 mins)
Bradley, S.A. "You Will Be Assimilated: Science Fiction and Horror." Hellbent for Horror #32 (February 8, 2017)
Romney, Jonathan. "Inside Your Head: Conceptual Science Fiction." Sight and Sound (February 24, 2015)
Cosmic Psychos: Blokes You Can Trust (Australia: Matt Weston, 2013: 95 mins)
Bursztynski, Maurice, et al. "Cosmic Psychos, Blokes You Can Trust." See Hear #15 (March 25, 2015) ["Australian documentary from 2013 Cosmic Psychos - Blokes You Can Trust. The band started out in the early 1980s in the state of Victoria and (albeit not with the same lineup) are still around in 2015. Bands and artists such as Eddie Vedder, King Buzzo (The Melvins), Mudhoney, L7 and Butch Vig all line up not only to sing the Psychos' praises, but to tell their own personal stories from the road travelling with the band. They all convincingly state the case that the Seattle Grunge sound started in Melbourne with the Cosmic Psychos. Director Matt Weston has combined interviews about tales on the road and hedonism with fatherhood, weightlifting, dealing with divorce, tragedy, bondage.....and tractors. Yes, the band might seem to have the usual Spinal Tap type hijinks (don't fall asleep when your bandmate has a salmon in his suitcase), but this film does far more to show a tale of real people and the human influence the leave as well as the music influence."]
Nicholson, Amy. "Atom Egoyan Talks About His New West Memphis Three Movie Devil's Knot." LA Weekly (May 8, 2014)
Enemy (Canada/Spain: Denis Villeneuve, 2013: 90 mins)
Laczkowski, Jim, et al. "Denis Villeneuve." The Director's Club #140 (December 17, 2017) ["Now Playing Network Master of Ceremonies (and Director's Club founder) Jim Laczkowski joins us for this episode which has us looking at the films of French Canadian filmmaker Denis Villeneuve! With Jim's help, we look at how Villeneuve brings his unique combination of thoughtfulness, pathos, family focus, and strangeness to dramas, genre thrillers, and films across the sci-fi spectrum. Includes lots of spiders and one talking fish."]
Wickman, Forrest. "What Should We Make of Enemy’s Shocking Ending?" Slate (March 14, 2014)
Evil Dead (USA: Fede Alvarez, 2013: 91 mins)
Hart, David and Chris Maynard. "Evil Dead (2013) and Acute Withdrawal." Pop Culture Case Study #167 (August 25, 2016) ["... Dave talks about acute withdrawal from drugs, particularly focusing on opioid dependence. We tie this topic in with Fede Alvarez's 2013 film, EVIL DEAD. This is just in time for his latest release, DON'T BREATHE. Dave is joined by Chris Maynard of Following Films to talk about a number of topics, including drug addiction, horror movies, remakes, and overdoing the gore!"]
Exhibition (UK: Joanna Hogg, 2013: 104 mins)
Castillo, Monica. "The 51st New York Film Festival #2." The Cinephiliacs (Occtober 3, 2013)
Finding Vivian Maier (USA: John Maloof and Charlie Siskel, 2013: 83 mins)
Ehrenstein, David. "Vivian Maier: The Spy Who Stayed Out in the Cold." Keyframe (March 28, 2014)
The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden (USA/Ecuador/Norway/Germany: Daniel Geller and Dayna Goldfine, 2013: 120 mins)
Guillén, Michael. "Eden, Interrupted: The Galapagos Affair." Keyframe (April 14, 2014)
Generation War (Germany: TV Miniseries, 2013: 270 mins)
Buruma, Iain. "Normal NAZIs." The New York Review of Books (February 19, 2014)
The German Doctor (Argentina/Spain/Norway/France: Lucía Puenzo, 2013: 93 mins)
Mayer, Sophie. "Horror in Paradise." The F Word (August 7, 2014) ["Sophie Mayer looks at Lucia Puenzo's Wakolda, film narrating the Patagonian epilogue to extremely dark period in European history"]
Gerontophilia (Canada: Bruce LaBruce, 2013: 82 mins)
Tafoya, Scout. "The Post-Punk Cinema Manifesto." Keyframe (September 10, 2015)
Gold (Germany/Canada: Thomas Arslan, 2013: 101 mins)
Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia (USA/Italy: Nicholas Wrathall, 2013: 83 mins)
Ehrenstein, David. "How to Remember in a Nation that Forgets: Nicholas Wrathall’s GORE VIDAL: THE UNITED STATES OF AMNESIA shows that strong ideas do survive." Keyframe (June 29, 2014)
Half of a Yellow Sun (Nigeria/UK: Biyi Bandele, 2014: 111 mins)
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. "Hiding From Our Past." The New Yorker (May 1, 2014)
Hard To Be a God (Russia: Aleksei German, 2013: 177 mins)
Bird, Daniel, et al. "Hard To Be a God." The Projection Booth #268 (April 26, 2016) ["Based on a book by the Strugatsky Brothers, Hard to Be a God is a three hour medieval sci-fi film from Aleksei German wherein the inhumanity of man comes to the fore. The material was also the source of Peter Fleischmann's 1989 film Es ist nicht leicht ein Gott zu sein."]
Hit and Stay (USA: Skizz Cyzyk and Joe Tropea, 2013: 99 mins)
Cyzyk, Skizz and Joe Tropea. "Hit and Stay." The Projection Booth #120 (June 25, 2013) [" A look at Hit & Stay, a documentary that looks at the anti-war activism movement from the Catonsville 9 to the Camden 28 and beyond."]
I Am Divine (USA: Jeffrey Schwarz, 2013: 90 mins)
Schway, Jeffrey and Mink Stole. "I Am Divine." The Production Booth #125 (July 30, 2013)
The Immigrant (USA: James Gray, 2013: 120 mins)
Cotillard, Marion. "On Her career and Her Roles in Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne's Two Days One Night and James Gray's The Immigrant." The Close-Up #8 (December 2014)
Dayoub, Tony. "The 51st New York Film Festival #3." The Cinephiliacs (October 13, 2013)
I'm So Excited (Spain: Pedro Almodovar, 2013: 90 mins)
I'm So Excited Critics Round Up (2013)
In Bloom (Georgia/Germany/France: Nana Ekvtimishvili and Simon Groß, 2013: 102 mins)
In Bloom Critics Round Up (Ongoing Archive)
It Felt Like Love (USA: Eliza Hittman, 2013: 82 mins)
Iron Man III (USA: Shane Black, 2013: 130 mins)
Claverie, Ezra. "The Hollywood superhero as brand manager: An allegory of intellectual property." Jump Cut #57 (Fall 2016)
Jealousy (France: Philippe Garrel, 2013: 77 mins)
Castillo, Monica. "The 51st New York Film Festival #2." The Cinephiliacs (October 3, 2013)
Jellyfish Eyes (Japan: Takashi Muakami, 2013: 101 mins)
Helfand, Glen. "Gods and Monsters: Murakami Goes to the Movies." Current (December 9, 2015)
The Kill Team (USA: Dan Krauss, 2013: 79 mins)
Krauss, Dan. "Through the Lens: The Kill Team." Radio West (September 2, 2014)["We continue our Through the Lens series Tuesday with "The Kill Team." A U.S. Army platoon made headlines in 2010 after if was learned they'd murdered several innocent Afghan civilians. In his film, director Dan Krauss examines those events and their fallout through the story of Adam Winfield, one of the guilty soldiers. Winfield tried to alert the military of the atrocity he and his comrades committed. His warnings went unheeded and Winfield found himself the target of a massive war crimes investigation. Krauss joins us to discuss his film, which explores the intersection of morality, conflict, and violence."]
Kill Your Darlings (USA: John Krokidas, 2013: 104 mins)
Swinney, Jacob T. "12 Essential Women Cinematographers." Keyframe (August 10, 2016)
Labor Day (USA: Jason Reitman, 2013: 111 mins)
Flores, Steven. "The Auteurs: Jason Reitman." Cinema Axis (February 26, 2014)
Like Father, Like Son (Japan: Hirokazu Koreeda, 2013: 121 mins)
Ehrlich, David. "Director’s Cut: Hirokazu Kore-eda (Like Father, Like Son)." Film (January 15, 2014)
Kogonada. "The world according to Koreeda: How Japan’s modern master revives our taste for everyday life." Sight and Sound (January 9, 2014)
Lone Survivor (USA: Peter Berg, 2013: )
Hudson, David. "AFI Fest 2013 | Peter Berg’s Lone Survivor. KeyFrame (November 13, 2013)
Lovelace (USA: Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, 2013: 93 mins)
MacKinnon, Catherine. "Lovelace." Harvard University Press Blog (August 9, 2013)
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (UK/South Africa: Justin Chadwick, 2013: 141 mins)
Mudede, Charles. "The Devils and Angels of African Cinema." Keyframe (November 5, 2015)
Manakamana (Nepal/USA: Stephanie Spray and Pacho Velez, 2013: 118 mins)
Labuza, Peter and Carson Lund. "Special Episode - The 51st New York Film Festival #1." The Cinephiliacs (September 26, 2013)
Marlow, Jonathan. "The Journey Up to the Manakamana Temple: Stephanie Spray and Pacho Velez." Keyframe (April 18, 2014)
Man of Steel (USA/Canada/UK: Zack Snyder, 2013: 143 mins)
Borden, Carol. "The Act of Killing in Comics." The Cultural Gutter (November 30, 2017)
Maron (Netflix: Marc Maron, 2013 - )
Kuersten, Erich. "Exit the Navel: Maron, Dice." Acidemic (May 11, 2016)
Nobody's Daughter Haewon (South Korea: Sang-soo Hong, 2013: 90 mins)
Labuza, Peter and Carson Lund. "Special Episode - The 51st New York Film Festival #1." The Cinephiliacs (September 26, 2013)
Marshall, Colin. "The Films of Sangsoo Hong." The Quarterly Conversation (June 11, 2013)
Riley, John A. "Existential Lethargy: Hong Sang-soo's Nobody's Daughter Haewon (2013)" Bright Lights Film Journal #82 (November 2013)
Norte, the End of History (Philippines: Lav Diaz, 2013: 250 mins)
Labuza, Peter and Carson Lund. "Special Episode - The 51st New York Film Festival #1." The Cinephiliacs (September 26, 2013)
Hudson, David. "Lav Diaz’s Norte, the End of History: 'Diaz juxtaposes the intellectual and the common man in NORTE with peerless elegance.'” Keyframe (September 28, 2013)
Oblivion (USA: Joseph Kosinski, 2013: 124 mins)
Jensen, Lindsay. "The Analog Mother: Joseph Kosinski’s Oblivion." Cleo 1.2 (July 25, 2013)
Only God Forgives (Denmark/USA/Sweden/France/Belgium: Nicholas Winding Refn, 2013: 90 mins)
Orange is the New Black (Netflix: Jenji Kohan, 2013 - )
"Orange is Great, but Red is More Our Color." FlixWise (August 13, 2014)
Pacific Rim (USA: Guillermo del Toro, 2013: 131 mins)
El Goro. "The Super Inframan (1975) and Pacific Rim (2013)." Talk Without Rhythm #363 (March 2017)
Llinares, Dario and Neil Fox. "Pacific Rim (Sci-fi Special, Pt. 2)" The Cinematologists (June 26, 2015)
Pain & Gain (USA: Michael Bay, 2013: 129 mins)
Rodriguez, Juan-Llamas. "Pain & Gain, global workout culture, and the neoliberal ascetic ideal." Jump Cut #58 (Spring 2018)
Palo Alto (USA: Gia Coppola, 2013: 100 mins)
Swinney, Jacob T. "12 Essential Women Cinematographers." Keyframe (August 10, 2016)
Paradise: Hope (Austria/France/Germany: Ulrich Seidl, 2013: 92 mins)
Knauss, Stephanie. "The Paradise Trilogy: Love, Faith, Hope." Journal of Religion & Film 17.2 (October 2013)
Parkland (USA: Peter Landesman, 2013: 93 mins)
Kiang, Jessica. "50th Anniversary: 8 JFK Assassination Films That Revisit History." The Playlist (November 20, 2013)
Wickman, Forrest. "What Should We Make of Enemy’s Shocking Ending?" Slate (March 14, 2014)
Evil Dead (USA: Fede Alvarez, 2013: 91 mins)
Hart, David and Chris Maynard. "Evil Dead (2013) and Acute Withdrawal." Pop Culture Case Study #167 (August 25, 2016) ["... Dave talks about acute withdrawal from drugs, particularly focusing on opioid dependence. We tie this topic in with Fede Alvarez's 2013 film, EVIL DEAD. This is just in time for his latest release, DON'T BREATHE. Dave is joined by Chris Maynard of Following Films to talk about a number of topics, including drug addiction, horror movies, remakes, and overdoing the gore!"]
Castillo, Monica. "The 51st New York Film Festival #2." The Cinephiliacs (Occtober 3, 2013)
Finding Vivian Maier (USA: John Maloof and Charlie Siskel, 2013: 83 mins)
Ehrenstein, David. "Vivian Maier: The Spy Who Stayed Out in the Cold." Keyframe (March 28, 2014)
The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden (USA/Ecuador/Norway/Germany: Daniel Geller and Dayna Goldfine, 2013: 120 mins)
Guillén, Michael. "Eden, Interrupted: The Galapagos Affair." Keyframe (April 14, 2014)
Generation War (Germany: TV Miniseries, 2013: 270 mins)
Buruma, Iain. "Normal NAZIs." The New York Review of Books (February 19, 2014)
The German Doctor (Argentina/Spain/Norway/France: Lucía Puenzo, 2013: 93 mins)
Mayer, Sophie. "Horror in Paradise." The F Word (August 7, 2014) ["Sophie Mayer looks at Lucia Puenzo's Wakolda, film narrating the Patagonian epilogue to extremely dark period in European history"]
Gerontophilia (Canada: Bruce LaBruce, 2013: 82 mins)
Tafoya, Scout. "The Post-Punk Cinema Manifesto." Keyframe (September 10, 2015)
Gold (Germany/Canada: Thomas Arslan, 2013: 101 mins)
Shambu, Girish. "Gold." The Cinephiliacs #93 (May 21, 2017) ["If the cinephilia of lining up on small streets of Paris and New York for obscure rare prints of art films and the auteurs of Hollywood to appreciate the wind in the trees has died with Susan Sontag, what has replaced it? This is one of many questions asked by blogger Girish Shambu in his book The New Cinephilia. In this final report from SCMS, Girish discusses his childhood in India and how he became interested in not just film but the kind of critical discourses it creates, and how he sees himself functioning within that world. The two talk about the opportunities and challenges that cinephilia faces in our current moment, both in terms of the expanding definition of media and its relation to politics. Finally, they turn their eyes toward the ever nebulous group of coy German filmmakers known as the Berlin School, and in particular, Thomas Arslan's Klondike-trekking western Gold with Phoenix star Nina Hoss."]
Ehrenstein, David. "How to Remember in a Nation that Forgets: Nicholas Wrathall’s GORE VIDAL: THE UNITED STATES OF AMNESIA shows that strong ideas do survive." Keyframe (June 29, 2014)
Half of a Yellow Sun (Nigeria/UK: Biyi Bandele, 2014: 111 mins)
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. "Hiding From Our Past." The New Yorker (May 1, 2014)
Hard To Be a God (Russia: Aleksei German, 2013: 177 mins)
Bird, Daniel, et al. "Hard To Be a God." The Projection Booth #268 (April 26, 2016) ["Based on a book by the Strugatsky Brothers, Hard to Be a God is a three hour medieval sci-fi film from Aleksei German wherein the inhumanity of man comes to the fore. The material was also the source of Peter Fleischmann's 1989 film Es ist nicht leicht ein Gott zu sein."]
Hit and Stay (USA: Skizz Cyzyk and Joe Tropea, 2013: 99 mins)
Cyzyk, Skizz and Joe Tropea. "Hit and Stay." The Projection Booth #120 (June 25, 2013) [" A look at Hit & Stay, a documentary that looks at the anti-war activism movement from the Catonsville 9 to the Camden 28 and beyond."]
I Am Divine (USA: Jeffrey Schwarz, 2013: 90 mins)
Schway, Jeffrey and Mink Stole. "I Am Divine." The Production Booth #125 (July 30, 2013)
The Immigrant (USA: James Gray, 2013: 120 mins)
Cotillard, Marion. "On Her career and Her Roles in Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne's Two Days One Night and James Gray's The Immigrant." The Close-Up #8 (December 2014)
Dayoub, Tony. "The 51st New York Film Festival #3." The Cinephiliacs (October 13, 2013)
I'm So Excited (Spain: Pedro Almodovar, 2013: 90 mins)
Flores, Steven. "The Auteurs: Pedro Almodovar (Part 1)." Cinema Axis (September 29, 2014)
---. "The Auteurs: Pedro Almodovar (Part 2)." Cinema Axis (October 6, 2014)
---. "The Auteurs: Pedro Almodovar (Part 2)." Cinema Axis (October 6, 2014)
In Bloom (Georgia/Germany/France: Nana Ekvtimishvili and Simon Groß, 2013: 102 mins)
In Bloom Critics Round Up (Ongoing Archive)
It Felt Like Love (USA: Eliza Hittman, 2013: 82 mins)
Iron Man III (USA: Shane Black, 2013: 130 mins)
Claverie, Ezra. "The Hollywood superhero as brand manager: An allegory of intellectual property." Jump Cut #57 (Fall 2016)
Castillo, Monica. "The 51st New York Film Festival #2." The Cinephiliacs (October 3, 2013)
Jellyfish Eyes (Japan: Takashi Muakami, 2013: 101 mins)
Helfand, Glen. "Gods and Monsters: Murakami Goes to the Movies." Current (December 9, 2015)
The Kill Team (USA: Dan Krauss, 2013: 79 mins)
Krauss, Dan. "Through the Lens: The Kill Team." Radio West (September 2, 2014)["We continue our Through the Lens series Tuesday with "The Kill Team." A U.S. Army platoon made headlines in 2010 after if was learned they'd murdered several innocent Afghan civilians. In his film, director Dan Krauss examines those events and their fallout through the story of Adam Winfield, one of the guilty soldiers. Winfield tried to alert the military of the atrocity he and his comrades committed. His warnings went unheeded and Winfield found himself the target of a massive war crimes investigation. Krauss joins us to discuss his film, which explores the intersection of morality, conflict, and violence."]
Kill Your Darlings (USA: John Krokidas, 2013: 104 mins)
Swinney, Jacob T. "12 Essential Women Cinematographers." Keyframe (August 10, 2016)
Labor Day (USA: Jason Reitman, 2013: 111 mins)
Flores, Steven. "The Auteurs: Jason Reitman." Cinema Axis (February 26, 2014)
Ehrlich, David. "Director’s Cut: Hirokazu Kore-eda (Like Father, Like Son)." Film (January 15, 2014)
Kogonada. "The world according to Koreeda: How Japan’s modern master revives our taste for everyday life." Sight and Sound (January 9, 2014)
Lone Survivor (USA: Peter Berg, 2013: )
Hudson, David. "AFI Fest 2013 | Peter Berg’s Lone Survivor. KeyFrame (November 13, 2013)
Lovelace (USA: Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, 2013: 93 mins)
MacKinnon, Catherine. "Lovelace." Harvard University Press Blog (August 9, 2013)
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (UK/South Africa: Justin Chadwick, 2013: 141 mins)
Mudede, Charles. "The Devils and Angels of African Cinema." Keyframe (November 5, 2015)
Manakamana (Nepal/USA: Stephanie Spray and Pacho Velez, 2013: 118 mins)
Balsom, Erika. "The Reality Based Community." e-flux #83 (2017)
Marlow, Jonathan. "The Journey Up to the Manakamana Temple: Stephanie Spray and Pacho Velez." Keyframe (April 18, 2014)
Man of Steel (USA/Canada/UK: Zack Snyder, 2013: 143 mins)
Borden, Carol. "The Act of Killing in Comics." The Cultural Gutter (November 30, 2017)
Claverie, Ezra. "The Hollywood superhero as brand manager: An allegory of intellectual property." Jump Cut #57 (Fall 2016)
Kuersten, Erich. "Exit the Navel: Maron, Dice." Acidemic (May 11, 2016)
Nobody's Daughter Haewon (South Korea: Sang-soo Hong, 2013: 90 mins)
Labuza, Peter and Carson Lund. "Special Episode - The 51st New York Film Festival #1." The Cinephiliacs (September 26, 2013)
Marshall, Colin. "The Films of Sangsoo Hong." The Quarterly Conversation (June 11, 2013)
Riley, John A. "Existential Lethargy: Hong Sang-soo's Nobody's Daughter Haewon (2013)" Bright Lights Film Journal #82 (November 2013)
Norte, the End of History (Philippines: Lav Diaz, 2013: 250 mins)
Labuza, Peter and Carson Lund. "Special Episode - The 51st New York Film Festival #1." The Cinephiliacs (September 26, 2013)
Hudson, David. "Lav Diaz’s Norte, the End of History: 'Diaz juxtaposes the intellectual and the common man in NORTE with peerless elegance.'” Keyframe (September 28, 2013)
Oblivion (USA: Joseph Kosinski, 2013: 124 mins)
Jensen, Lindsay. "The Analog Mother: Joseph Kosinski’s Oblivion." Cleo 1.2 (July 25, 2013)
Only God Forgives (Denmark/USA/Sweden/France/Belgium: Nicholas Winding Refn, 2013: 90 mins)
Orange is the New Black (Netflix: Jenji Kohan, 2013 - )
"Orange is Great, but Red is More Our Color." FlixWise (August 13, 2014)
Pacific Rim (USA: Guillermo del Toro, 2013: 131 mins)
El Goro. "The Super Inframan (1975) and Pacific Rim (2013)." Talk Without Rhythm #363 (March 2017)
Pain & Gain (USA: Michael Bay, 2013: 129 mins)
Rodriguez, Juan-Llamas. "Pain & Gain, global workout culture, and the neoliberal ascetic ideal." Jump Cut #58 (Spring 2018)
Palo Alto (USA: Gia Coppola, 2013: 100 mins)
Swinney, Jacob T. "12 Essential Women Cinematographers." Keyframe (August 10, 2016)
Knauss, Stephanie. "The Paradise Trilogy: Love, Faith, Hope." Journal of Religion & Film 17.2 (October 2013)
Parkland (USA: Peter Landesman, 2013: 93 mins)
Kiang, Jessica. "50th Anniversary: 8 JFK Assassination Films That Revisit History." The Playlist (November 20, 2013)
Project Censored the Movie (USA: Doug Hecker and Christopher Oscar, 2013: 60 mins)
Huff, Mickey and Peter Phillips. "Top Censored News Stories of 2012-2013, Nolan Higdon's “Disinfo Wars: Alex Jones’ War on Your Mind” and Project Censored the Movie." Project Censored (October 8, 2013)
Phillips, Peter and Andy Roth. Top Censored News Stories of 2012-2013 and Project Censored the Movie Project Censored (October 1, 2013)
The Purge (USA/France: James DeMonaco, 2013: 85 mins)
Bradley, S.A. "Nowhere Man: The Outsider in Horror." Hell Bent for Horror #30 (January 21, 2017) ["The Us vs. Them mentality is a backdrop for some really good horror stories. Frankenstein being a great example. The Monster is the outsider, but yet you sympathize with him. In these conflicts, horror is uniquely suited to tell some great stories, and give different results. What makes THEM…them? How easily can WE become THEM? “Civilized” society is a tough path to tread. In this episode I talk about Horror and the outsider. I bring up Frankenstein and then go from short stories to little known movies to popular movies of the last decade."]
Rhymes for Young Ghouls (Canada: Jeff Barnaby, 2013: 88 mins)
Doyle, Caitlyn. "Truth Unreconciled: Counter-Dreaming in Jeff Barnaby’s Rhymes for Young Ghouls." Film Criticism 44.1 (January 2020)
Rick and Morty (Cartoon Network: Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland, 2013 - )
Kincaid, Caleb. "Rick and Morty on Personal Identity." Dialogic Cinephilia (February 27, 2017)
Room To Breathe (USA: Russell Long, 2013: 76 mins)
Busch, Ling and Megan Cowan. "Room To Breathe: From Chaos to Peace in the Classroom." Making Contact ((September 17, 2013)
Salvo (Italy/France: Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza, 2013: 110 mins)
Koehler, Robert. "Salvo." Film Comment (May 16, 2013)
Saving Mr. Banks (USA/UK/Australia: John Lee Hancock, 2013: 125 mins)
Budd, Mike. "Saving Mr. Banks and building Mr. Brand: the Walt Disney Company in the era of corporate personhood." Jump Cut #56 (Winter 2014/2015)
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (USA: Ben Stiller, 2013: 114 mins)
Lucca, Violet. "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty." Reverse Shot #33 (2013)
Short Term 12 (USA: Destin Daniel Cretton, 2013: 96 mins)
Jamison, Leslie. "Short Term Feelings: What Hurts About Short Term 12." Los Angeles Review of Books (January 4, 2014)
Side Effects (USA: Steven Soderbergh, 2013: 106 mins)
Side Effects Critics Round Up (Ongoing Archive)
Soft in the Head (USA: Nathan Silver, 2013: 71 mins)
Hudson, David. "Nathan Silver." Keyframe (April 18, 2014)
Starred Up (UK: David Mackenzie, 2013: 106 mins)
Hudson, David. "David Mackenzie’s Starred Up: 'Every interaction is volatile… Each punch is felt deeply.'” Keyframe (November 11, 2013)
Star Trek: Into Darkness (USA: J.J. Abrams, 2013: 132 mins)
Frezza, L.J. "Star Trek’s Rules of War: How the sci-fi franchise (and maybe humanity) endures - by knowing the future is now.." Keyframe (July 21, 2016)
The Stone Roses: Made of Stone (UK: Shane Meadows, 2013: 97 mins)
Harvey, Dennis. "I Wanna Be Adored?" Keyframe (March 7, 2014) ["Recalling the spectacular rise and fall of Stone Roses, Shane Meadows’ MADE OF STONE proffers not-giving-an-eff is intrinsic to what made the band monumental."]
Story of My Death (Spain/France: Albert Serra, 2013: 148 mins)
Fairfax, Daniel. "'Everything is dead but the motor still turns': An Interview with Albert Serra." Senses of Cinema (December 2013)
Stray Dogs (Taiwan/France: Tsai Ming-Liang, 2013: 138 mins)
Castillo, Monica. "The 51st New York Film Festival #2." The Cinephiliacs (October 3, 2013)
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (Japan: Isao Takahata, 2013: 137 mins)
Tip Top (France/Luxembourg/Belgium: Serge Bozon, 2013: 106 mins)
Fujishima, Kenji. "Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2014: Tip Top." Slant (March 6, 2014)
Tom at the Farm (Canada/France: Xavier Dolan, 2013: 102 mins)
The Seventh Art. "Xavier Dolan." (Posted on Youtube: January 5, 2015)
Top of the Lake (Sundance Channel: Jane Campion, 2013 - )
Baughan, Nikki. "Where to Begin with Jane Campion." Sight and Sound (May 3, 2016)
Trap Street (China: Vivian Qu, 2013: 93 mins)
Zhou, Xin. "ND/NF Interview: Vivian Qu." Film Comment (March 28, 2014)
Tru Love (Canada: Kate Johnston and Shauna MacDonald, 2013: 94 mins)
Swinney, Jacob T. "12 Essential Women Cinematographers." Keyframe (August 10, 2016)
Vara: A Blessing (Bhutan/Hong Kong/Sri Lanka: Khyentse Norbu, 2013: 96 mins)
Young, Bradford. "The Philosophy of Cinematography." The Film Stage (November 5, 2015) [Cinematographer for the films Selma (2014); A Most Violent Year (2014); Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2013); Vara a Blessing (2013); Middle of Nowhere (2012); Pariah (2011)]
Venus in Fur (France/Poland: Roman Polanski, 2013: 96 mins)
Hudson, David. "Roman Polanski’s Venus in Fur: “It’s refreshing to witness a reinvigorated Polanski willing to once again delve deep into seedy psychodrama.” Keyframe (May 31, 2014)
The Voice of the Voiceless (USA: Maximon Monihan, 2013: 80 mins)
Wajma, An Afghanistan Love Story (Afghanistan/France: Barmak Akram, 2013: 85 mins)
Brunsting, Joshua. "Barmak Akram’s Wajma, An Afghan Love Story [PIFF 2014 Review]." Criterion Cast (February 7, 2014)
Watermark (Canada: Jennifer Baichwal and Edward Burtynsky, 2013: 92 mins)
JB. ""The final collaboration is between the finished film and its audience": Jennifer Baichwal and Ed Burtynsky on Watermark." The Phantom Country (January 8, 2014)
We Are the Best (Sweden/Denmark: Lukas Moodyson, 2013: 102 mins)
Bursztynski, Maurice, and Hank Hellman. "We Are the Best!" See Hear #43 (August 20, 2017) ["Can you imagine two grown men talking about a film on which the plot revolves around three teenage girls forming a punk band and only one of them has any musical chops? Imagine no further because Maurice is joined by Hank Hellman to do just that. The notions of friendship, being an outsider, sticking it to parents (not always deservedly) and chocolate ice cream are all universal themes, so the gents qualify to discuss Lukas Moodyson's 2013 film based on a graphic novel by his wife Coco. The film is funny, honest, scattered, and most importantly realistic. This is not a Steven Spielberg tale of growing up and "learning something" in the dying moments. It's about 3 friends having fun, getting jealous, not always doing the right thing by each other, and standing up for themselves in small ordinary ways....you know....real life!!!!"]
We Are What We Are (USA: Jim Mickle, 2013: 105 mins)
Smithson, Sean. "We Are What We Are", Tastefully Macabre." Twitch (September 24, 2013)
Larke-Walsh, George S. and Stephanie Oliver. "‘This Thing of Ours’: A Woman’s Place in the Gangster Genre." Senses of Cinema #91 (July 2019)
Amour Fou (Austria/Luxembourg/Germany: Jessica Hausner, 2014: 96 mins)
Tafoya, Scout. "The Post-Punk Cinema Manifesto." Keyframe (September 10, 2015)
An Honest Liar (USA/Spain/Italy/Canada: Tyler Measom and Justin Weinstein, 2014: 90 mins)
Measom, Tyler. "Through the Lens: An Honest Liar." Radio West (April 28, 2014)
A Pigeon Sat On a Branch Reflecting on Existence (Sweden/Germany/Norway/France/Denmark: Roy Andersson, 2014: 101 mins)
Collier, Stuart, et al. "The Living Trilogy of Roy Andersson (2000 - 2014)." Illusion Travels by Streetcar #102 (May 5, 2016)
As Above, So Below (USA: John Erick Dowdle, 2014: 93 mins)
Bradley, S.A. "Shut Up and Watch the Movie (Part One)." Hellbent for Horror #42 (May 29, 2017)
Beloved Sisters (Germany/Austria/Switzerland: Dominik Graf, 2014: 138 mins)
Kasman, Daniel. "NYFF 2014: Dominik Graf's Beloved Sisters." Notebook (September 29, 2014)
Big Eyes (USA/Canada: Tim Burton, 2014: 106 mins)
Black-ish (ABC: Kenya Barris, 2014 - )
Barris, Kenya. "On 'Black-ish' And What Kids Lose When They Grow Up With More." Fresh Air (May 18, 2016)
Black Jesus (Adult Swim: Aaron Mcgruder, 2014 - )
McGruder, Aaron. "Black Jesus." The Treatment (September 17, 2014)
The Blue Room (France: Mathieu Amalric, 2014: 75 mins)
Hudson, David. "Mathieu Amalric’s THE BLUE ROOM: Amalric’s 'most accomplished directing achievement yet'.” Keyframe (May 16, 2014)
Buzzard (USA: Joel Potrykus, 2014: 97 mins)
Celluloid Liberation Front. "Locarno 2014. Joel Potrykus' Buzzard." Notebook (January 14, 2015)
Cake (USA: Daniel Barnz, 2014: 102 mins)
Ehrlich, David. "Let Them Eat Cake: How a terrible Jennifer Aniston movie turned into this year’s Oscar Cinderella story." Slate (January 7, 2015)
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (USA: Anthony Russo and Joe Russo, 2014: 136 mins)
Catch Me Daddy (UK: Daniel Wolfe, 2014: )
Hudson, David. "Daniel Wolfe’s CATCH ME DADDY: Critics forgive minor infractions to welcome a promising debut." Keyframe (May 16, 2014)
Cesar Chavez (USA/Mexico: Diego Luna, 2014: 101 mins)
Huerta, Delores and Jose Antonio Orozco. "The Non-Violent Path of Cesar Chavez." Making Contact (April 9, 2014)
Luna, Diego. "Diego Luna on His Directorial Debut, Cesar Chavez." Uprising Radio (March 24, 2014)
Concerning Violence (Sweden/Denmark/Finland/USA: Göran Olsson, 2014: 78 mins)
Josefsson, Kira. "Concerning Violence: An Interview with Goran Hugo Olsson." Press Play (July 3, 2014)
"Liv Ullman/Chuck Workman/Göran Olsson." Filmwax Radio #260 (December 6, 2014)
Creep (USA: Patrick Brice, 2014: 74 mins)
Bradley, S.A. "Shut Up and Watch the Movie (Part One)." Hellbent for Horror #42 (May 29, 2017)
The Cult of JT Leroy (USA: Marjorie Sturm, 2014: 92 mins)
Sturm, Marjorie. "I Made the Documentary The Cult of JT LeRoy, and I Must Discuss Savannah Knoop’s New Film." Film International (April 26, 2019)
Cure: The Life of Another (Switzerland/Croatia/Bosnia and Herzegovina: Andrea Staka, 2014: 83 mins)
"Andrea Štaka's Cure - The Life of Another." Notebook (august 4, 2015)
Da Sweet Blood of Jesus (USA: Spike Lee, 2014: 123 mins)
Harvey, Dennis. "From GANJA AND HESS to Spike Lee’s DA SWEET BLOOD OF JESUS—and Back Again." Keyframe (February 9, 2015)
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (USA/UK/Canada: Matt Reeves, 2014: 130 mins)
Hassler-Forest, Dan. "The Politics of the Planet of the Apes." The Los Angeles Review of Books (August 26, 2017)
Doll and Em (UK: Emily Mortimer and Dolly Wells, 2014 - 2015)
Loofbourow, Lili. "The Male Glance: How We Fail to Take Women's Stories Seriously." The Guardian (March 6, 2018) ["Male art is epic, universal, and profoundly meaningful. Women’s creations are domestic, emotional and trivial. How did we learn to misread stories so badly?"]
Dreams Are Colder Than Death (USA: Arthur Jafa, 2014: 52 mins)
Raengo, Alessandra. "Holding Blackness: Aesthetics of Suspensions." Liquid Blackness #7 (October 2017)
Drone (Norway/Pakistan/USA: Tonje Hessen Schel, 2014: 78 mins)
Bryant, Brandon. "From Console to Trigger: How Pentagon 'Exploits' Video Game Culture to Wire Youth for War." Democracy Now (November 20, 2015) [Among the issues tackled in the new documentary film "Drone" is the connection between video games and military recruitment. We air a clip from the film and speak to its director, Tonje Hessen Schei, as well as drone war whistleblower Brandon Bryant. "I think gamers should be offended that the military and the government are using [video games] to manipulate and recruit," Bryant says. "We’re more interconnected now than at any time in human history — and that’s being exploited to help people kill one another."]
Eden (France: Mia Hansen-Løve, 2014: 131 mins)
Oliver-Harding, Michael. "French Touch Gets a Proper Cinematic Homage in Eden." Noisey (October 17, 2014) ["The portrait of a generation captures the early days of Daft Punk and the scene they came from."]
Evaporating Borders (Cyprus/USA: Iva Radivojevic, 2014: 73 mins)
Cohn, Pamela. "Iva Radivojevic." BOMB (May 1, 2014) ["The filmmaker examines themes of migration, tolerance, identity, and belonging in her first feature film, Evaporating Borders."]
Fargo (FX: Noah Hawley, 2014 - )
Hawley, Noah. "Fargo is a Series About The Things People Do for Money." Fresh Air (May 15, 2017)
Faults (USA: Riley Stearns, 2014: 89 mins)
"Faults." The Film Stage #134 (March 23, 2015)
Food Chains (USA: Sanjay Rawal, 2014: 83 mins)
Tatarska, Anna. "Bringing Justice to the Table: An Eric Schlosser exec-produced food justice documentary puts agricultural workers in the spotlight." Keyframe (November 24, 2014)
Foxcatcher (USA: Bennett Miller, 2014: 129 mins)
"Bennett Miller." Close Up #4 (November 2014) ["Bennett Miller talks FOXCATCHER, his influences, and the art of filmmaking at an HBO Directors Dialogue during the 52nd New York Film Festival."]
Ehrenstein, David. "Oscars 2015: Based on a ‘Truthiness’ Story." Keyframe (January 16, 2015) ["Dramatizing history, taking heat this Oscar season: SELMA, FOXCATCHER, THE IMITATION GAME and AMERICAN SNIPER wrangle with the truth."]
Holcombe, David A. "Exploring the Effect of Non-Dialogue Scenes from Five Films." Cultivate Your Queue (April 22, 2015)
Fury (USA: David Ayers, 2014: 134 mins)
Ayer, David and David Hart. "Fury and Justice." Pop Culture Case Study #161 (August 4, 2016) ["In
this episode, Dave discusses Justice in its many forms, both in normal society and in the military. More importantly, he is joined by Berook of the Cinema Bun Podcast to talk about David Ayer's opus, FURY ..."]
Future Shock! The Story of 2000 AD (UK: Paul Goodwin, 2014: 110 mins)
Goodwin, Paul, et al. "Special Report: Future Shock - The Story of 2000 AD (2014)." The Projection Booth (February 2, 2017) ["Britain's ground-breaking 2000 AD comic introduced a raft of vital artists and writers along with indelible characters like Judge Dredd, Halo Jones, Strontium Dog, and more. The documentary Future Shock! The Story of 2000 AD (2014) tells the story of the ups and downs of this influential work. Director Paul Goodwin and producer Sean Hogan discuss the creation of Future Shock!. Josh Hadley joins Mike to reminisce about comics and the film adaptations of various 2000 AD stories."]
God's Not Dead (USA: Harold Cronk, 2014: 113 mins)
Fragoso, Sam. "God’s Not Dead Review: Perhaps, But Logic May Be." Film School Rejects (March 29, 2014)
God Help the Girl (UK: Stuart Murdoch, 2014: 111 mins)
Romney, Jonathan. "Film of the Week: God Help the Girl." Film Comment (January 17, 2014)
Godzilla (USA/Japan: Gareth Edwards, 2014: 123 mins)
Heath, Roderick. "Godzilla (2014)." Ferdy on Films (May 2014)
Goodbye to Language (France: Jean-Luc Godard, 2014: 70 mins)
Brody, Richard, Héloise Godet and Lawrence Kardish. "Discussing Godard." The Close Up #3 (November 2014)
Fendt, Ted. "Adieu au langage - Goodbye to Language: A Works Cited." Notebook (October 12, 2014)
Good Kill (USA: Andrew Niccol, 2014: 102 mins)
Insdorf, Annette. Cinematic Overtures: How to Read Opening Scenes. Columbia University Press, 2017. ["Your professor has a copy of this book."]
Goodnight Mommy (Austria: Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz, 2014: 99 mins)
Appen, Joe Von and Erik McCkanahan. "A Thematic Pairing Of Inescapable Dread." Adjust Your Tracking #116 (September 23, 2015) ["... reviews of two dread-soaked, arthouse genre films opening slowly in theaters across the country. First is Austrian horror Goodnight Mommy then onto drug war thriller Sicario, each tension-filled and terrifying in their own way."]
Prewitt, Zach. "The Best Horror Cinema of the 21st Cinema." (Posted on Vimeo: October 2016)
Guardians of the Galaxy (USA/UK: James Gunn, 2014: 121 mins)
Newman, Kim. "Guardians of the Galaxy: Marvel calls up its reserve superheroes for a rambunctious outer-space caper." Sight and Sound (August 21, 2014)
The Guest (USA/UK: Adam Wingard, 2014: 100 mins)
Framing the Picture: Color and Conflict in The Guest from Matt Marlin on Vimeo.
Heaven is For Real (USA: Randall Wallace, 2014: 99 mins)
O'Hehir, Andrew. “Heaven Is for Real doesn’t seem all that convinced: The achingly wholesome 'faith-based' hit is actually a sad American fantasy riddled with conflict and doubt." Slant (April 23, 2014)
Heaven Knows What (USA: Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie, 2014)
Marsh, Calum. "Josh and Benny Safdie on Heaven Knows What: Speaking of drama, time, street life and strange attractions: ‘You’re constantly flirting with death.’" Keyframe (September 23, 2014)
Hellion (USA: Kat Chandler, 2014: 99 mins)
Honeymoon (USA: Leigh Janiak, 2014: 87 mins)
Bradley, S.A. "Shut Up and Watch the Movie (Part One)." Hellbent for Horror #42 (May 29, 2017)
Reilly, Phoebe. "From Babadook to Raw: The Rise of the Modern Female Horror Filmmaker." Rolling Stone (October 27, 2016)
Horse Money (Portugal: Pedro Costa, 2014: 103 mins)
McNeil, Jeremiah, et al. "Pedro Costa in Fontainhas (1997-2014)." Illusion Travels by Streetcar #93 (February 25, 2016)
India's Daughter (UK/India: Leslee Udwin, 2014: 63 mins)
Faleiro, Sonia. "India's Daughter review – this film does what the politicians should be doing." The Guardian (March 5, 2015)
In Order of Disappearance (Norway/Sweden: Hans Petter Moland, 2014: 116 mins)
Tatarska, Anna. "Hans Petter Moland’s Long Way to Fargo: ‘Part of the ambition of In Order of Disappearance was to kind of blow the doors out of the genre limitations that you often feel exist.’" Keyframe (April 23, 2014)
The Interview (USA: Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen, 2014: 112 mins)
Greenwald, Glenn. "North Korea/Sony Story Shows How Eagerly U.S. Media Still Regurgitate Government Claims." The Intercept (January 1, 2014)
Hong, Christine and Tim Shorrock. "The Interview Belittles North Korea, But is Film’s Backstory and U.S. Policy the Real Farce?" Democracy Now (December 22, 2014)
The Iron Ministry (USA: J.P. Sniadecki, 2014: 82 mins)
Ivory Tower (USA: Andrew Rossi, 2014: 90 mins)
Gerhard, Susan. "The College Question: Filmmaker Andrew Rossi takes a balanced approach to a pivotal crisis with Ivory Tower." Keyframe (June 21, 2014)
Jauja (Argentina/Denmark/France/Mexico/USA/Germany/Brazil/Netherlands: Lisandro Alonso, 2014: 109 mins)
Andermann, Jens. "Argentine cinema after the New: Territories, languages, medialities." Senses of Cinema #89 (December 2018)
Jersey Boys (USA: Clint Eastwood, 2014: 134 mins)
Heath, Glenn, Jr. "On Tour: Clint Eastwood’s Jersey Boys and American Sniper." Notebook (December 23, 2014)
The Kindergarten Teacher (Israel/France: Nadav Lapid, 2014: 119 mins)
Kuehner, Jay. "Who Can Tell of the Heroic Deeds of Israel?: Nadav Lapid’s The Kindergarten Teacher." Cinema-Scope #61 (2014)
The Knick (Showtime: Steven Soderbergh, 2014 - )
Seitz, Matt Zoller and Chris Wade. "What Does 'Cinematic TV' Really Mean?" Vulture (October 21, 2015)
Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter (USA: David Zellner, 2014: 105 mins)
Friedman, Julia. "Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter." Los Angeles Review of Books (April 13, 2015)
La Sapienza (France/Italy: Eugène Green, 2014: 101 mins)
Cristina Álvarez and Adrian Martin.
Last Shift (USA: Anthony DiBlasi, 2014: 90 mins)
Bradley, S.A. "Shut Up and Watch the Movie (Part One)." Hellbent for Horror #42 (May 29, 2017)
Learning to Drive (UK/USA: Isabel Coixet, 2014: 90 mins)
Warne, Jude. "Ben Kingsley and Company on Learning to Drive." Film International (September 6, 2015)
The Leftovers (HBO: Damon Lindelof and Tom Perrotta, 2014 - )
Hancock, James, Mikhail Karadimov and Leanne Kubicz. "The Leftovers: Season 3 Recap and Review." Wrong Reel #278 (June 5, 2017)
Ryan, Maureen. "The Leftovers: Life, Death, Einstein and Time Travel." Variety (May 31, 2017)
Leviathan (Russia: Andrey Zvyagintsev, 2014: 140 mins)
Rodnyansky, Alexander. "Leviathan." Final Cut (March 27, 2015)
Vassilieva, Julia. "Russian Leviathan: Power, Landscape, Memory." Film Criticism 42.1 (March 2018) ["This article presents an analysis of the recent Russian cinematic sensation, Andrei Zvyagintsev's fourth feature, Leviathan (2014). While earlier discussions of the film have focused on its thematic concerns, often ignoring its style and privileging narrative over image, this article foregrounds the aesthetics of the film drawing on Jaques Rancière's recent discussion of the regimes of arts."]
Life of Riley (France: Alain Resnias, 2014: 108 mins)
Hudson, David. "Berlinale 2014 Diary #5: Resnais’s LIFE OF RILEY. And a few more films in Competition." Keyframe (February 10, 2014)
Li'l Quinquin (France: Bruno Dumont, 2014: 200 mins)
Zawia, Alexandra. "Bruno Dumont on Why TIFF Comedy Li'l Quinquin Feels Like 'Self-Parody.'" IndieWire (September 10, 2014)
Listen Up Philip (USA: Alex Ross Perry, 2014: 108 mins)
"Yann Demange talks '71, Alex Ross Perry discusses his influences, Love is Strange." Final Cut (March 20, 2014)
Love and Mercy (USA: Bill Pohlad, 2014: 121 mins)
Bursztynski, Maurice. " Interview with Darian Sahanaja (Brian Wilson’s band and musical consultant for Love And Mercy)." See Hear (April 17, 2016) ["In April, Maurice interviewed Darian Sahanaja (Wondermints and Brian Wilson Band) for Love That Album episode 89 on the final day of Brian's 2016 tour of Australia. The last part of the interview featured a discussion about Darian's work as musical consultant on Love And Mercy.With Tim and Bernie's blessing, Maurice thought it would be a good idea to present this segment as a bonus episode of See Hear. Darian coached the brilliant Paul Dano to play piano in a style similar to Brian, and came up with the idea to use real musicians rather than actors to play The Wrecking Crew as they recorded Pet Sounds. Listen to Darian discuss the creative process in his work on the film."]
Bursztynski, Maurice, et al. "Love and Mercy." See Hear #25 (February 21, 2016) ["Bill Pohlad’s 2015 biopic of Brian Wilson, Love And Mercy. For the first part of the show, Frank Santopadre of Gilbert Gottfried’s Amazing Colossal Podcast and writer Tish Grier join the See Hear crew to discuss the Murry Wilson School of parenting, mental health issues, the Wrecking Crew, Beach Boys albums that are not Pet Sounds or Smile, and the contributions to the Beach Boys sounds by members that were not Brian Wilson. The second part of the show is devoted to a discussion on the merits of the film. Given the many flaws usually inherent in a biopic (and we name-check a few), how does Love And Mercy compare?"]
Love is Strange (USA/France/Brazil/Greece: Ira Sachs, 2014: 94 mins)
Natoli, Joseph. "Bringing Ira Sachs’ Love Is Strange into Focus." Bright Lights Film Journal (January 23, 2015)
Lucy (France: Luc Besson, 2014: 89 mins)
Francis, Marc. "Splitting the difference: On the queer-feminist divide in Scarlett Johansson’s recent body politics." Jump Cut #57 (Fall 2016)
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles (USA: Chuck Workman, 2014: 91 mins)
"Liv Ullman/Chuck Workman/Göran Olsson." Filmwax Radio #260 (December 6, 2014)
Maidan (Ukraine/Netherlands: Sergey Loznitsa, 2014: 134 mins)
Bierend, Doug. "Photos: The Brutal DIY Weapons of the Ukrainian Revolution." Wired (March 11, 2014)
Maleficent (USA/UK: Robert Stromberg, 2014: 97 mins)
Chaw, Walter. "Maleficent." Film Freak Central (May 29, 2014)
Maps to the Stars (Canada/USA/Germany/France: David Cronenberg, 2014: 111 mins)
Lattimer, James. "Evolving Mantras and Restricted Vocabularies." The Notebook (February 23, 2015)
Margarita With a Straw (India: Shonali Bose and Nilesh Maniyar, 2014: 100 mins)
Bose, Shonali. "Margarita With a Straw." Film School (May 20, 2016)
Men, Women and Children (USA: Jason Reitman, 2014: 119 mins)
Flores, Steven. "The Auteurs: Jason Reitman." Cinema Axis (February 26, 2014)
Miss Julie (Norway | UK | Canada | USA | France | Ireland: Liv Ullman, 2014: 129 mins)
"Liv Ullman/Chuck Workman/Göran Olsson." Filmwax Radio #260 (December 6, 2014)
The Monuments Men (USA/Germany: George Clooney, 2014: 118 mins)
Cravero, Valerie Cox. "The History of The Monuments Men." Dialogic Cinephilia (November 10, 2014)
Mr. Turner (UK/France/Germany: Mike Leigh, 2014: 150 mins)
Leigh, Mike. "Mr. Turner." The Close Up (January 2015)
The M Word (USA: Henry Jaglom, 2014: 117 mins)
Kramer, Gary M. "Henry Jaglom." BOMB (April 29, 2014) ["The cult filmmaker on women, dating, eating, shopping, having babies, and his latest film, The M Word."]
National Gallery (France/USA/UK: Frederick Wiseman, 2014: 180 mins)
"Frederick Wiseman." Filmwax Radio #254 (November 12, 2014)
Ned Rifle (USA: Hal Hartley, 2014: 85 mins)
"Thomas Jay Ryan." Filmwax Radio #265 (January 1, 2015)
Neighbors (USA: Nicholas Stoller, 2014: 97 mins)
"Neighbors and the Transition to Parenthood." Pop Culture Case Study #153 (July 7, 2016)
The New Girlfriend (France: Francois Ozon, 2014: 108 mins)
Nightcrawler (USA: Dan Gilroy, 2014: 117 mins)
Gilroy, Dan. "Nightcrawler." The Treatment (October 29, 2014)
Kempenaar, Adam and Josh Larsen. "Nightcrawler / Top 5 Nocturnal Movies." Filmspotting #513 (November 7, 2014)
Noah (USA: Darren Aronofsky, 2014: 138 mins)
"Darren Aronofsky." Director's Club #127 (April 7, 2017)
Stewart, Jon. "Haters of the Lost Ark." The Daily Show (April 8, 2014)
Regarding Susan Sontag (USA: Nancy D. Yates, 2014: 100 mins)
Hughes, Harriet Smith. "On Regarding Susan Sontag." Another Gaze (March 29, 2016)
Pawn Sacrifice (USA: Edward Zwick, 2014: 115 mins)
Young, Bradford. "The Philosophy of Cinematography." The Film Stage (November 5, 2015) [Cinematographer for the films Selma (2014); A Most Violent Year (2014); Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2013); Vara a Blessing (2013); Middle of Nowhere (2012); Pariah (2011)]
Predestination (Australia: The Spierig Brothers, 2014: 97 mins)
Romney, Jonathan. "Inside Your Head: Conceptual Science Fiction." Sight and Sound (February 24, 2015)
Spierig, Michael and Peter Spierig. "Predestination." Final Cut (January 15, 2015)
Queen and Country (Ireland/France/Romania: John Boorman, 2014: 115 mins)
Klawans, Stuart. "American Shooter: Clint Eastwood’s shoot ’em up is remorseless, racist fantasy." The Nation (February 10, 2015)
The Raid 2 (Indonesia/USA: Gareth Evans, 2014: 150 mins)
Hendrix, Grady. "Kaiju Shakedown: The Raid 2." Film Comment (April 1, 2014)
Regarding Susan Sontag (USA: Nancy D. Kates, 2014: 100 mins)
Hughes, Harriet Smith. "On Regarding Susan Sontag." Another Gaze (March 29, 2016)
Robocop (USA: José Padilha, 2014: 117 mins)
Sweedler, Milo. "Class Warfare in the Robocop Films." Jump Cut #56 (Wineter 2014/2015)
Rocks in My Pockets (USA/Latvia: Signe Baumane, 2014: 88 mins)
Rosenberg, Emma. "Staying Sane with Rocks in My Pocket." The Baffler (October 30, 2014)
Rosewater (USA: Jon Stewart, 2014: 103 mins)
Fragoso, Samuel. "Jon Stewart and Rosewater." Keyframe (November 13, 2014) ["Jon Stewart talks about his leave from The Daily Show to follow the Maziar Bahari story."]
The Rover (Australia/USA: David Michôd, 2014: 103 mins)
Swinney, Jacob T. "12 Essential Women Cinematographers." Keyframe (August 10, 2016)
Saint Laurent (France/Belgium: Bertrand Bonello, 2014: 150 mins)
Tafoya, Scout. "The Post-Punk Cinema Manifesto." Keyframe (September 10, 2015)
The Salt of the Earth (France/Brazil/Italy: Juliano Ribeiro Salgado and Wim Wenders, 2014: 110 mins)
Anderson, Ariston. "'Creation is Still a Great Adventure': 5 Questions for The Salt of the Earth Director Wim Wenders." Filmmaker (December 3, 2014)
Rosso, John Di. "The Salt of the Earth." Final Cut (April 10, 2015)
Selma (UK/USA/France: Ava DuVernay, 2014: 128 mins)
Gino, Francesca. "You 2.0: Rebel with a Cause." Hidden Brain (August 9, 2019) ["This week, we'll follow Gino on her mission to understand the minds of successful rule breakers. What are their secrets? And how can we discover our own rebel talent? "I think we really need to shift our thinking," says Gino. "Rebels are people who break rules that should be broken. They break rules that hold them and others back, and their way of rule breaking is constructive rather than destructive. It creates positive change.""]
Shelter (USA: Paul Bettany, 2014: 105 mins)
Bettany, Paul, Jennifer Connelly and Anthony Mackie. "Shelter." Charlie Rose (November 12, 2015)
The Skeleton Twins (USA: Craig Johnson, 2014: 93 mins)
The Sleepwalker (Norway/USA: Mona Fastvold, 2014: 91 mins)
Nastasi, Alison. "We Exist: The Female Horror Directors of 2014." Balder and Dash (December 29, 2014)
Spies of Mississippi (USA: Dawn Porter, 2014)
Mitchell, Jerry and Dawn Porter. "Spies of Mississippi: New Film on the State-Sponsored Campaign to Defeat the Civil Rights Movement." and "PART 2: Interview with "Spies of Mississippi" Director and Reporter Jerry Mitchell." Democracy Now (February 25, 2014)
Spring (USA: Justin Benson and Aaron Morehead, 2014: 109 mins)
Bradley, S.A. "The Old Gods of Springtime Horror." Hellbent for Horror (April 10, 2018) ["Things might look bright and warm during Springtime, but there's something sinister underneath the surface. The pastel colors of the flowers camouflage the blood and death in the soil that helped them grow. When the difference between life and death depended on a bountiful harvest, people made human sacrifices to appease the Old Gods of the earth. In this episode I talk about horror movies devoted to the Old Gods of Springtime, man's uneasy connection to the earth, and how groups of people can be scarier than the Old Gods themselves."]
---. "Shut Up and Watch the Movie (Part One)." Hellbent for Horror #42 (May 29, 2017)
Starry Eyes (USA/Belgium: Kevin Kolsch and Dennis Widmyer, 2014: 98 mins)
Cleaver, Sarah Kathryn and Mary Wild. "Women in Horror Episode 1: Perfection (The Perfection & Starry Eyes)." Projections (October 30, 2019) ["Welcome to our new series; Women in Horror! We’re starting off on the theme of perfection, discussing trauma, exploitation and the pain of transformation in Starry Eyes (2014) by Kevin Kolsch and Dennis Widmyer and Netflix’s The Perfection (2019) - Richard Shepard."]
Prewitt, Zach. "The Best Horror Cinema of the 21st Cinema." (Posted on Vimeo: October 2016)
Street Fighter: Assassin's Fist (UK: TV Mini-Series, 2014)
Sams, Josh. "The Street Fighter Films: How to And How Not to Adapt a Video Game." Dialogic Cinephilia (October 24, 2016)
Theeb (United Arab Emirates/Qatar/Jordan/UK: Naji Abu Nowar, 2014: 100 mins)
"Watch an 80-Minute Talk with the Directors Behind 2016’s Best Foreign Language Film Nominees." The Film Stage (January 14, 2016)
The Theory of Everything (UK: James Marsh, 2014: 123 mins)
"Diminished Lives." Cineaste (Summer 2015)
Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People (USA: Thomas Allen Harris, 2014: 90 mins)
Harris, Thomas Allen. "Through A Lens Darkly: How African Americans Use Photography to Shape Their Cultural Representation." Democracy Now (Posted on Youtube: January 23, 2014)
Willis, Deborah. "Through a Lens Darkly." The Gist of Freedom (October 18, 2014)
Timbuktu (France/Mauritania: Abderrahmane Sissako, 2014: 97 mins)
Bellaigue, Christopher de. "A Song Against Jihad." NYR Blog (February 22, 2015)
Transcendence (UK/China/USA: Wally Pfister, 2014: 119 mins)
Hudson, David. "Wally Pfister’s Transcendence: Disappointment, pretty much across the board." Keyframe (April 16, 2014)
Transformers: Age of Extinction (USA: Michael Bay, 2014: 165 mins)
O'Hehir, Andrew. "'Transformers': Robot warriors of the Tea Party attack." Salon (June 28, 2014)
Two Days, One Night (Belgium/France/Italy: Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne, 2014: 95 mins)
Cotillard, Marion. "On Her career and Her Roles in Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne's Two Days One Night and James Gray's The Immigrant." The Close-Up #8 (December 2014)
Shambu, Girish. "Two Days, One Night." The Current (August 25, 2015) ["Since the financial crisis, we have increasingly seen a critique of capitalism—even if often only a cautious one—in mainstream media and culture. But usually the underlying assumption in these discussions is that capitalism is a monolithic entity—one that has stood, intact and still, in the same form, for a couple of centuries. The history of economics tells us otherwise. There have in fact been many capitalisms over the years. For example, the Keynesian “controlled capitalism” that took hold in the years of the New Deal, to help relieve national economic suffering in the U.S. during the Great Depression, was quite different from the more rapacious, unregulated capitalism that had reigned a few decades earlier. Since around 1980, we have been witnessing the rise of a new breed of capitalism, neoliberalism, which is achieving global domination with the unwavering agenda of reducing taxes on corporations and the rich, massively deregulating industries, slashing public spending on social programs, and “liberalizing” labor markets (code for giving companies free rein in their hiring and firing decisions). This model of capitalism, after steady escalation over three decades, has now become firmly entrenched in our lives, workplaces, and cultures. And it is on the social and economic repercussions arising from it that the Dardennes have been turning their camera. Their belief is clear: by creating new and indelible images of this virulent model, we can fight it, laying the ground from which a newer, more just social-economic form can grow."]
The Wanted 18 (Canada/Palestine/France: Paul Cowan and Amer Shomali, 2014: 75 mins)
Bacha, Julia and Amer Shomali. "The Wanted 18: Israel Blocks Palestinian Filmmaker from Making NYC Film Premiere About Intifada Cows." Democracy Now (June 12, 2015)
When Animals Dream (Denmark/France: Jonas Alexander Arnby, 2014: 84 mins)
Bradley, S.A. "Shut Up and Watch the Movie (Part One)." Hellbent for Horror #42 (May 29, 2017)
While We're Young (USA: Noah Baumbach, 2014: 97 mins)
Rosso, Jason Di. "While We're Young." Final Cut (April 17, 2015)
Wildlike (USA: Frank Hall Green, 2014: 104 mins)
Thicknes, Holly. "Examining the Trauma of Child Abuse in Wildlike and The Violators." Another Gaze (Jabuary 17, 2016)
The Wonders (Italy/Switzerland/Germany: Alice Rohrwacher, 2014: 110 mins)
The Yes Men are Revolting (Netherlands/Denmark/France/Germany/USA: Andy Bichlbaum, Michael Bonanno and Laura Nix, 2014: 91 mins)
Bichlbaum, Andy. "Behind the Hijinks of The Yes Men." Waging Nonviolence (June 4, 2015)
Nix, Laura, et al. "Be an Expert." Popaganda (July 30, 2015)
Huff, Mickey and Peter Phillips. "Top Censored News Stories of 2012-2013, Nolan Higdon's “Disinfo Wars: Alex Jones’ War on Your Mind” and Project Censored the Movie." Project Censored (October 8, 2013)
Phillips, Peter and Andy Roth. Top Censored News Stories of 2012-2013 and Project Censored the Movie Project Censored (October 1, 2013)
The Purge (USA/France: James DeMonaco, 2013: 85 mins)
Bradley, S.A. "Nowhere Man: The Outsider in Horror." Hell Bent for Horror #30 (January 21, 2017) ["The Us vs. Them mentality is a backdrop for some really good horror stories. Frankenstein being a great example. The Monster is the outsider, but yet you sympathize with him. In these conflicts, horror is uniquely suited to tell some great stories, and give different results. What makes THEM…them? How easily can WE become THEM? “Civilized” society is a tough path to tread. In this episode I talk about Horror and the outsider. I bring up Frankenstein and then go from short stories to little known movies to popular movies of the last decade."]
Rhymes for Young Ghouls (Canada: Jeff Barnaby, 2013: 88 mins)
Doyle, Caitlyn. "Truth Unreconciled: Counter-Dreaming in Jeff Barnaby’s Rhymes for Young Ghouls." Film Criticism 44.1 (January 2020)
Rick and Morty (Cartoon Network: Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland, 2013 - )
Kincaid, Caleb. "Rick and Morty on Personal Identity." Dialogic Cinephilia (February 27, 2017)
Busch, Ling and Megan Cowan. "Room To Breathe: From Chaos to Peace in the Classroom." Making Contact ((September 17, 2013)
Salvo (Italy/France: Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza, 2013: 110 mins)
Koehler, Robert. "Salvo." Film Comment (May 16, 2013)
Saving Mr. Banks (USA/UK/Australia: John Lee Hancock, 2013: 125 mins)
Budd, Mike. "Saving Mr. Banks and building Mr. Brand: the Walt Disney Company in the era of corporate personhood." Jump Cut #56 (Winter 2014/2015)
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (USA: Ben Stiller, 2013: 114 mins)
Lucca, Violet. "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty." Reverse Shot #33 (2013)
Short Term 12 (USA: Destin Daniel Cretton, 2013: 96 mins)
Jamison, Leslie. "Short Term Feelings: What Hurts About Short Term 12." Los Angeles Review of Books (January 4, 2014)
Side Effects (USA: Steven Soderbergh, 2013: 106 mins)
Side Effects Critics Round Up (Ongoing Archive)
Soft in the Head (USA: Nathan Silver, 2013: 71 mins)
Hudson, David. "Nathan Silver." Keyframe (April 18, 2014)
Hudson, David. "David Mackenzie’s Starred Up: 'Every interaction is volatile… Each punch is felt deeply.'” Keyframe (November 11, 2013)
Star Trek: Into Darkness (USA: J.J. Abrams, 2013: 132 mins)
Frezza, L.J. "Star Trek’s Rules of War: How the sci-fi franchise (and maybe humanity) endures - by knowing the future is now.." Keyframe (July 21, 2016)
The Stone Roses: Made of Stone (UK: Shane Meadows, 2013: 97 mins)
Harvey, Dennis. "I Wanna Be Adored?" Keyframe (March 7, 2014) ["Recalling the spectacular rise and fall of Stone Roses, Shane Meadows’ MADE OF STONE proffers not-giving-an-eff is intrinsic to what made the band monumental."]
Story of My Death (Spain/France: Albert Serra, 2013: 148 mins)
Fairfax, Daniel. "'Everything is dead but the motor still turns': An Interview with Albert Serra." Senses of Cinema (December 2013)
Stray Dogs (Taiwan/France: Tsai Ming-Liang, 2013: 138 mins)
Castillo, Monica. "The 51st New York Film Festival #2." The Cinephiliacs (October 3, 2013)
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (Japan: Isao Takahata, 2013: 137 mins)
Fujishima, Kenji. "Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2014: Tip Top." Slant (March 6, 2014)
Tom at the Farm (Canada/France: Xavier Dolan, 2013: 102 mins)
The Seventh Art. "Xavier Dolan." (Posted on Youtube: January 5, 2015)
Top of the Lake (Sundance Channel: Jane Campion, 2013 - )
Baughan, Nikki. "Where to Begin with Jane Campion." Sight and Sound (May 3, 2016)
Flores, Steven. "The Auteurs: Jane Campion." Cinema Axis (September 30, 2013)
Trap Street (China: Vivian Qu, 2013: 93 mins)
Zhou, Xin. "ND/NF Interview: Vivian Qu." Film Comment (March 28, 2014)
Tru Love (Canada: Kate Johnston and Shauna MacDonald, 2013: 94 mins)
Swinney, Jacob T. "12 Essential Women Cinematographers." Keyframe (August 10, 2016)
Young, Bradford. "The Philosophy of Cinematography." The Film Stage (November 5, 2015) [Cinematographer for the films Selma (2014); A Most Violent Year (2014); Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2013); Vara a Blessing (2013); Middle of Nowhere (2012); Pariah (2011)]
Venus in Fur (France/Poland: Roman Polanski, 2013: 96 mins)
Hudson, David. "Roman Polanski’s Venus in Fur: “It’s refreshing to witness a reinvigorated Polanski willing to once again delve deep into seedy psychodrama.” Keyframe (May 31, 2014)
The Voice of the Voiceless (USA: Maximon Monihan, 2013: 80 mins)
Monihan, Maximon, Daisy Wright and Isaac Zablocki. "How Do You Make Movies About Invisible People?" No Film School (May 23, 2016)
Brunsting, Joshua. "Barmak Akram’s Wajma, An Afghan Love Story [PIFF 2014 Review]." Criterion Cast (February 7, 2014)
Watermark (Canada: Jennifer Baichwal and Edward Burtynsky, 2013: 92 mins)
JB. ""The final collaboration is between the finished film and its audience": Jennifer Baichwal and Ed Burtynsky on Watermark." The Phantom Country (January 8, 2014)
We Are the Best (Sweden/Denmark: Lukas Moodyson, 2013: 102 mins)
Bursztynski, Maurice, and Hank Hellman. "We Are the Best!" See Hear #43 (August 20, 2017) ["Can you imagine two grown men talking about a film on which the plot revolves around three teenage girls forming a punk band and only one of them has any musical chops? Imagine no further because Maurice is joined by Hank Hellman to do just that. The notions of friendship, being an outsider, sticking it to parents (not always deservedly) and chocolate ice cream are all universal themes, so the gents qualify to discuss Lukas Moodyson's 2013 film based on a graphic novel by his wife Coco. The film is funny, honest, scattered, and most importantly realistic. This is not a Steven Spielberg tale of growing up and "learning something" in the dying moments. It's about 3 friends having fun, getting jealous, not always doing the right thing by each other, and standing up for themselves in small ordinary ways....you know....real life!!!!"]
Smithson, Sean. "We Are What We Are", Tastefully Macabre." Twitch (September 24, 2013)
Tafoya, Scout. "The Unloved, Part 70: We Are What We Are." Roger Ebert (October 1, 2019)
When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism (Romania/France: Corneliu Porumboiu, 2013: 89 mins)
Castillo, Monica. "The 51st New York Film Festival #2." The Cinephiliacs (Occtober 3, 2013)
Why Don't You Play in Hell?" (Japan: Sion Sono, 2013: 129 mins)
Tobias, Scott. "Why Don't You Play in Hell." The Dissolve (November 6, 2014)
The Wind Rises (Japan: Hayao Miyazaki, 2013: 126 mins)
Labuza, Peter and Carson Lund. "Special Episode - The 51st New York Film Festival #1." The Cinephiliacs (September 26, 2013)
World War Z (USA/Malta: Marc Forster, 2013: 116 mins)
"Honest Trailers - World War Z." Screen Junkies (September 17, 2013)
Young and Beautiful (France: Francois Ozon, 2013: 95 mins)
2014:
'71 (UK: Yann Demarge, 2014: 99 mins)
"Yann Demange talks '71, Alex Ross Perry discusses his influences, Love is Strange." Final Cut (March 20, 2014)
99 Homes (USA: Ramin Bahrani, 2014: 112 mins)
Ashenmiller, Josh. "White Privilege? It’s in the Fine Print (Django Unchained, American Hustle, 99 Homes)." Bright Lights Film Journal (September 22, 2017)
Shannon, Michael. "99 Homes." DP/30 (December 10, 2015)
1971 (USA: Johanna Hamilton, 2014: 79 mins)
Gosztola, Kevin. "When Americans Saw Injustice by the FBI and Did Something About it: 1971." Shadowplay (April 21, 2014)
20,000 Days on Earth (UK: Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, 2014: 97 mins)
Forsyth, Iain and Jane Pollard. "20,000 Days on Earth." Final Cut (January 22, 2015)
A Blast (Greece/Germany/Netherlands/Italy/Bosnia and Herzegovina/France: Syllas Tzoumerkas, 2014: 83 mins)
Crawford, Travis. "Release Me: A Blast." Keyframe (November 9, 2015) ["A BLAST feels like A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE as reinterpreted by early Nicolas Roeg."]
All This Mayhem (Australia/UK: Eddie Martin, 2014: 104 mins)
Martin, Eddie. "All This Mayhem." Final Cut (January 8, 2015)
A Most Violent Year (United Arab Emirates/USA: J.C. Chandor, 2014: 125 mins)
When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism (Romania/France: Corneliu Porumboiu, 2013: 89 mins)
Castillo, Monica. "The 51st New York Film Festival #2." The Cinephiliacs (Occtober 3, 2013)
Why Don't You Play in Hell?" (Japan: Sion Sono, 2013: 129 mins)
Tobias, Scott. "Why Don't You Play in Hell." The Dissolve (November 6, 2014)
The Wind Rises (Japan: Hayao Miyazaki, 2013: 126 mins)
Labuza, Peter and Carson Lund. "Special Episode - The 51st New York Film Festival #1." The Cinephiliacs (September 26, 2013)
World War Z (USA/Malta: Marc Forster, 2013: 116 mins)
"Honest Trailers - World War Z." Screen Junkies (September 17, 2013)
Young and Beautiful (France: Francois Ozon, 2013: 95 mins)
Flores, Steven. "The Auteurs: Francois Ozon." Cinema Axis (May 20, 2014)
The Zero Theorem (UK/Romania/France/USA: Terry Gilliam, 2013: 107 mins)
The Zero Theorem (UK/Romania/France/USA: Terry Gilliam, 2013: 107 mins)
Flores, Steven. "The Auteurs: Terry Gilliam." Cinema Axis (November 8, 2014)
2014:
'71 (UK: Yann Demarge, 2014: 99 mins)
"Yann Demange talks '71, Alex Ross Perry discusses his influences, Love is Strange." Final Cut (March 20, 2014)
99 Homes (USA: Ramin Bahrani, 2014: 112 mins)
Ashenmiller, Josh. "White Privilege? It’s in the Fine Print (Django Unchained, American Hustle, 99 Homes)." Bright Lights Film Journal (September 22, 2017)
1971 (USA: Johanna Hamilton, 2014: 79 mins)
Gosztola, Kevin. "When Americans Saw Injustice by the FBI and Did Something About it: 1971." Shadowplay (April 21, 2014)
20,000 Days on Earth (UK: Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, 2014: 97 mins)
Forsyth, Iain and Jane Pollard. "20,000 Days on Earth." Final Cut (January 22, 2015)
A Blast (Greece/Germany/Netherlands/Italy/Bosnia and Herzegovina/France: Syllas Tzoumerkas, 2014: 83 mins)
Crawford, Travis. "Release Me: A Blast." Keyframe (November 9, 2015) ["A BLAST feels like A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE as reinterpreted by early Nicolas Roeg."]
All This Mayhem (Australia/UK: Eddie Martin, 2014: 104 mins)
Martin, Eddie. "All This Mayhem." Final Cut (January 8, 2015)
A Most Violent Year (United Arab Emirates/USA: J.C. Chandor, 2014: 125 mins)
Enelow, Shonni. "The Great Recession: Restrained but resilient, a style of acting has taken hold that speaks to an era’s anxieties." Film Quarterly (September-October 2016) ["This is another way to read the emotional withdrawal or refusal in these performances: as a response to a violent or chaotic environment, one that doesn’t offer an alternate vision of an open and embracing future. For even when representing an alienating or unfeeling world, actors of earlier eras generally appealed to the camera and their audiences to receive their feelings and implicitly trusted them to respond generously, either through vicarious sentiment or humanist compassion. Expressive acting—of which Method acting is one dominant form—is built on the conviction that audiences want an actor’s emotions to be in some way available to them. There’s a basic optimism in that conviction: the optimism that the world would be better if we all told each other the truth about what we feel. In contrast, many of today’s most lauded American film actors give performances that evince no such optimism about emotional expression. Returning to Winter’s Bone, for example, it’s clear that within the fiction of the film, Ree doesn’t trust the world to care about her well-being. But rather than contrast her character’s suspicion with an appeal to the (presumably) sympathetic film audience, Lawrence maintains her wariness throughout. Likewise, Mara doesn’t cut Lisbeth’s lowered gaze and near-inaudible, clipped speech with any revelation or outburst that would make us think she could be—or really is, deep down—other than she appears. There aren’t hidden motivations in these performances, and in fact, close to no subtext (the idea of subtext, with its inherently psychological schema, is parodied in Carol by a would-be writer who takes notes on the difference between what characters in movies say and what they really feel)."]
Larke-Walsh, George S. and Stephanie Oliver. "‘This Thing of Ours’: A Woman’s Place in the Gangster Genre." Senses of Cinema #91 (July 2019)
Amour Fou (Austria/Luxembourg/Germany: Jessica Hausner, 2014: 96 mins)
Tafoya, Scout. "The Post-Punk Cinema Manifesto." Keyframe (September 10, 2015)
Measom, Tyler. "Through the Lens: An Honest Liar." Radio West (April 28, 2014)
A Pigeon Sat On a Branch Reflecting on Existence (Sweden/Germany/Norway/France/Denmark: Roy Andersson, 2014: 101 mins)
Collier, Stuart, et al. "The Living Trilogy of Roy Andersson (2000 - 2014)." Illusion Travels by Streetcar #102 (May 5, 2016)
As Above, So Below (USA: John Erick Dowdle, 2014: 93 mins)
Bradley, S.A. "Shut Up and Watch the Movie (Part One)." Hellbent for Horror #42 (May 29, 2017)
Beloved Sisters (Germany/Austria/Switzerland: Dominik Graf, 2014: 138 mins)
Kasman, Daniel. "NYFF 2014: Dominik Graf's Beloved Sisters." Notebook (September 29, 2014)
Black-ish (ABC: Kenya Barris, 2014 - )
Barris, Kenya. "On 'Black-ish' And What Kids Lose When They Grow Up With More." Fresh Air (May 18, 2016)
Black Jesus (Adult Swim: Aaron Mcgruder, 2014 - )
McGruder, Aaron. "Black Jesus." The Treatment (September 17, 2014)
The Blue Room (France: Mathieu Amalric, 2014: 75 mins)
Hudson, David. "Mathieu Amalric’s THE BLUE ROOM: Amalric’s 'most accomplished directing achievement yet'.” Keyframe (May 16, 2014)
Buzzard (USA: Joel Potrykus, 2014: 97 mins)
Celluloid Liberation Front. "Locarno 2014. Joel Potrykus' Buzzard." Notebook (January 14, 2015)
Cake (USA: Daniel Barnz, 2014: 102 mins)
Ehrlich, David. "Let Them Eat Cake: How a terrible Jennifer Aniston movie turned into this year’s Oscar Cinderella story." Slate (January 7, 2015)
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (USA: Anthony Russo and Joe Russo, 2014: 136 mins)
Ratcliff, Travis Lee. "The Legacy of Paranoid Thrillers." (Posted on Vimeo: June 2017) ["Paranoid thrillers are constant in cinema's history, but at any given moment they reflect our specific anxieties back to us and reveal how we feel about our institutions. Here, I explore how paranoid thrillers crystalized as a genre in American cinema and examine the possibility of a contemporary renaissance in conspiracy fiction."]
Catch Me Daddy (UK: Daniel Wolfe, 2014: )
Hudson, David. "Daniel Wolfe’s CATCH ME DADDY: Critics forgive minor infractions to welcome a promising debut." Keyframe (May 16, 2014)
Cesar Chavez (USA/Mexico: Diego Luna, 2014: 101 mins)
Huerta, Delores and Jose Antonio Orozco. "The Non-Violent Path of Cesar Chavez." Making Contact (April 9, 2014)
Luna, Diego. "Diego Luna on His Directorial Debut, Cesar Chavez." Uprising Radio (March 24, 2014)
Concerning Violence (Sweden/Denmark/Finland/USA: Göran Olsson, 2014: 78 mins)
Josefsson, Kira. "Concerning Violence: An Interview with Goran Hugo Olsson." Press Play (July 3, 2014)
"Liv Ullman/Chuck Workman/Göran Olsson." Filmwax Radio #260 (December 6, 2014)
Creep (USA: Patrick Brice, 2014: 74 mins)
Bradley, S.A. "Shut Up and Watch the Movie (Part One)." Hellbent for Horror #42 (May 29, 2017)
The Cult of JT Leroy (USA: Marjorie Sturm, 2014: 92 mins)
Sturm, Marjorie. "I Made the Documentary The Cult of JT LeRoy, and I Must Discuss Savannah Knoop’s New Film." Film International (April 26, 2019)
"Andrea Štaka's Cure - The Life of Another." Notebook (august 4, 2015)
Da Sweet Blood of Jesus (USA: Spike Lee, 2014: 123 mins)
Harvey, Dennis. "From GANJA AND HESS to Spike Lee’s DA SWEET BLOOD OF JESUS—and Back Again." Keyframe (February 9, 2015)
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (USA/UK/Canada: Matt Reeves, 2014: 130 mins)
Hassler-Forest, Dan. "The Politics of the Planet of the Apes." The Los Angeles Review of Books (August 26, 2017)
Doll and Em (UK: Emily Mortimer and Dolly Wells, 2014 - 2015)
Loofbourow, Lili. "The Male Glance: How We Fail to Take Women's Stories Seriously." The Guardian (March 6, 2018) ["Male art is epic, universal, and profoundly meaningful. Women’s creations are domestic, emotional and trivial. How did we learn to misread stories so badly?"]
Raengo, Alessandra. "Holding Blackness: Aesthetics of Suspensions." Liquid Blackness #7 (October 2017)
Bryant, Brandon. "From Console to Trigger: How Pentagon 'Exploits' Video Game Culture to Wire Youth for War." Democracy Now (November 20, 2015) [Among the issues tackled in the new documentary film "Drone" is the connection between video games and military recruitment. We air a clip from the film and speak to its director, Tonje Hessen Schei, as well as drone war whistleblower Brandon Bryant. "I think gamers should be offended that the military and the government are using [video games] to manipulate and recruit," Bryant says. "We’re more interconnected now than at any time in human history — and that’s being exploited to help people kill one another."]
Eden (France: Mia Hansen-Løve, 2014: 131 mins)
Oliver-Harding, Michael. "French Touch Gets a Proper Cinematic Homage in Eden." Noisey (October 17, 2014) ["The portrait of a generation captures the early days of Daft Punk and the scene they came from."]
Evaporating Borders (Cyprus/USA: Iva Radivojevic, 2014: 73 mins)
Cohn, Pamela. "Iva Radivojevic." BOMB (May 1, 2014) ["The filmmaker examines themes of migration, tolerance, identity, and belonging in her first feature film, Evaporating Borders."]
Fargo (FX: Noah Hawley, 2014 - )
Hawley, Noah. "Fargo is a Series About The Things People Do for Money." Fresh Air (May 15, 2017)
Faults (USA: Riley Stearns, 2014: 89 mins)
"Faults." The Film Stage #134 (March 23, 2015)
Food Chains (USA: Sanjay Rawal, 2014: 83 mins)
Tatarska, Anna. "Bringing Justice to the Table: An Eric Schlosser exec-produced food justice documentary puts agricultural workers in the spotlight." Keyframe (November 24, 2014)
Foxcatcher (USA: Bennett Miller, 2014: 129 mins)
"Bennett Miller." Close Up #4 (November 2014) ["Bennett Miller talks FOXCATCHER, his influences, and the art of filmmaking at an HBO Directors Dialogue during the 52nd New York Film Festival."]
Ehrenstein, David. "Oscars 2015: Based on a ‘Truthiness’ Story." Keyframe (January 16, 2015) ["Dramatizing history, taking heat this Oscar season: SELMA, FOXCATCHER, THE IMITATION GAME and AMERICAN SNIPER wrangle with the truth."]
Holcombe, David A. "Exploring the Effect of Non-Dialogue Scenes from Five Films." Cultivate Your Queue (April 22, 2015)
Fury (USA: David Ayers, 2014: 134 mins)
Ayer, David and David Hart. "Fury and Justice." Pop Culture Case Study #161 (August 4, 2016) ["In
this episode, Dave discusses Justice in its many forms, both in normal society and in the military. More importantly, he is joined by Berook of the Cinema Bun Podcast to talk about David Ayer's opus, FURY ..."]
Future Shock! The Story of 2000 AD (UK: Paul Goodwin, 2014: 110 mins)
Goodwin, Paul, et al. "Special Report: Future Shock - The Story of 2000 AD (2014)." The Projection Booth (February 2, 2017) ["Britain's ground-breaking 2000 AD comic introduced a raft of vital artists and writers along with indelible characters like Judge Dredd, Halo Jones, Strontium Dog, and more. The documentary Future Shock! The Story of 2000 AD (2014) tells the story of the ups and downs of this influential work. Director Paul Goodwin and producer Sean Hogan discuss the creation of Future Shock!. Josh Hadley joins Mike to reminisce about comics and the film adaptations of various 2000 AD stories."]
Fragoso, Sam. "God’s Not Dead Review: Perhaps, But Logic May Be." Film School Rejects (March 29, 2014)
God Help the Girl (UK: Stuart Murdoch, 2014: 111 mins)
Romney, Jonathan. "Film of the Week: God Help the Girl." Film Comment (January 17, 2014)
Godzilla (USA/Japan: Gareth Edwards, 2014: 123 mins)
Heath, Roderick. "Godzilla (2014)." Ferdy on Films (May 2014)
Goodbye to Language (France: Jean-Luc Godard, 2014: 70 mins)
Brody, Richard, Héloise Godet and Lawrence Kardish. "Discussing Godard." The Close Up #3 (November 2014)
Fendt, Ted. "Adieu au langage - Goodbye to Language: A Works Cited." Notebook (October 12, 2014)
Good Kill (USA: Andrew Niccol, 2014: 102 mins)
Insdorf, Annette. Cinematic Overtures: How to Read Opening Scenes. Columbia University Press, 2017. ["Your professor has a copy of this book."]
Appen, Joe Von and Erik McCkanahan. "A Thematic Pairing Of Inescapable Dread." Adjust Your Tracking #116 (September 23, 2015) ["... reviews of two dread-soaked, arthouse genre films opening slowly in theaters across the country. First is Austrian horror Goodnight Mommy then onto drug war thriller Sicario, each tension-filled and terrifying in their own way."]
Prewitt, Zach. "The Best Horror Cinema of the 21st Cinema." (Posted on Vimeo: October 2016)
Guardians of the Galaxy (USA/UK: James Gunn, 2014: 121 mins)
Newman, Kim. "Guardians of the Galaxy: Marvel calls up its reserve superheroes for a rambunctious outer-space caper." Sight and Sound (August 21, 2014)
The Guest (USA/UK: Adam Wingard, 2014: 100 mins)
Framing the Picture: Color and Conflict in The Guest from Matt Marlin on Vimeo.
O'Hehir, Andrew. “Heaven Is for Real doesn’t seem all that convinced: The achingly wholesome 'faith-based' hit is actually a sad American fantasy riddled with conflict and doubt." Slant (April 23, 2014)
Heaven Knows What (USA: Ben Safdie and Joshua Safdie, 2014)
Marsh, Calum. "Josh and Benny Safdie on Heaven Knows What: Speaking of drama, time, street life and strange attractions: ‘You’re constantly flirting with death.’" Keyframe (September 23, 2014)
Hellion (USA: Kat Chandler, 2014: 99 mins)
Honeymoon (USA: Leigh Janiak, 2014: 87 mins)
Bradley, S.A. "Shut Up and Watch the Movie (Part One)." Hellbent for Horror #42 (May 29, 2017)
McNeil, Jeremiah, et al. "Pedro Costa in Fontainhas (1997-2014)." Illusion Travels by Streetcar #93 (February 25, 2016)
India's Daughter (UK/India: Leslee Udwin, 2014: 63 mins)
Faleiro, Sonia. "India's Daughter review – this film does what the politicians should be doing." The Guardian (March 5, 2015)
In Order of Disappearance (Norway/Sweden: Hans Petter Moland, 2014: 116 mins)
Tatarska, Anna. "Hans Petter Moland’s Long Way to Fargo: ‘Part of the ambition of In Order of Disappearance was to kind of blow the doors out of the genre limitations that you often feel exist.’" Keyframe (April 23, 2014)
The Interview (USA: Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen, 2014: 112 mins)
Greenwald, Glenn. "North Korea/Sony Story Shows How Eagerly U.S. Media Still Regurgitate Government Claims." The Intercept (January 1, 2014)
Hong, Christine and Tim Shorrock. "The Interview Belittles North Korea, But is Film’s Backstory and U.S. Policy the Real Farce?" Democracy Now (December 22, 2014)
The Iron Ministry (USA: J.P. Sniadecki, 2014: 82 mins)
Balsom, Erika. "The Reality Based Community." e-flux #83 (2017)
Gerhard, Susan. "The College Question: Filmmaker Andrew Rossi takes a balanced approach to a pivotal crisis with Ivory Tower." Keyframe (June 21, 2014)
Jauja (Argentina/Denmark/France/Mexico/USA/Germany/Brazil/Netherlands: Lisandro Alonso, 2014: 109 mins)
Andermann, Jens. "Argentine cinema after the New: Territories, languages, medialities." Senses of Cinema #89 (December 2018)
Heath, Glenn, Jr. "On Tour: Clint Eastwood’s Jersey Boys and American Sniper." Notebook (December 23, 2014)
The Kindergarten Teacher (Israel/France: Nadav Lapid, 2014: 119 mins)
Kuehner, Jay. "Who Can Tell of the Heroic Deeds of Israel?: Nadav Lapid’s The Kindergarten Teacher." Cinema-Scope #61 (2014)
The Knick (Showtime: Steven Soderbergh, 2014 - )
Seitz, Matt Zoller and Chris Wade. "What Does 'Cinematic TV' Really Mean?" Vulture (October 21, 2015)
Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter (USA: David Zellner, 2014: 105 mins)
Friedman, Julia. "Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter." Los Angeles Review of Books (April 13, 2015)
La Sapienza (France/Italy: Eugène Green, 2014: 101 mins)
Cristina Álvarez and Adrian Martin.
Last Shift (USA: Anthony DiBlasi, 2014: 90 mins)
Bradley, S.A. "Shut Up and Watch the Movie (Part One)." Hellbent for Horror #42 (May 29, 2017)
Warne, Jude. "Ben Kingsley and Company on Learning to Drive." Film International (September 6, 2015)
The Leftovers (HBO: Damon Lindelof and Tom Perrotta, 2014 - )
Hancock, James, Mikhail Karadimov and Leanne Kubicz. "The Leftovers: Season 3 Recap and Review." Wrong Reel #278 (June 5, 2017)
Ryan, Maureen. "The Leftovers: Life, Death, Einstein and Time Travel." Variety (May 31, 2017)
Leviathan (Russia: Andrey Zvyagintsev, 2014: 140 mins)
Rodnyansky, Alexander. "Leviathan." Final Cut (March 27, 2015)
Vassilieva, Julia. "Russian Leviathan: Power, Landscape, Memory." Film Criticism 42.1 (March 2018) ["This article presents an analysis of the recent Russian cinematic sensation, Andrei Zvyagintsev's fourth feature, Leviathan (2014). While earlier discussions of the film have focused on its thematic concerns, often ignoring its style and privileging narrative over image, this article foregrounds the aesthetics of the film drawing on Jaques Rancière's recent discussion of the regimes of arts."]
Hudson, David. "Berlinale 2014 Diary #5: Resnais’s LIFE OF RILEY. And a few more films in Competition." Keyframe (February 10, 2014)
Li'l Quinquin (France: Bruno Dumont, 2014: 200 mins)
Zawia, Alexandra. "Bruno Dumont on Why TIFF Comedy Li'l Quinquin Feels Like 'Self-Parody.'" IndieWire (September 10, 2014)
Listen Up Philip (USA: Alex Ross Perry, 2014: 108 mins)
"Yann Demange talks '71, Alex Ross Perry discusses his influences, Love is Strange." Final Cut (March 20, 2014)
Love and Mercy (USA: Bill Pohlad, 2014: 121 mins)
Bursztynski, Maurice. " Interview with Darian Sahanaja (Brian Wilson’s band and musical consultant for Love And Mercy)." See Hear (April 17, 2016) ["In April, Maurice interviewed Darian Sahanaja (Wondermints and Brian Wilson Band) for Love That Album episode 89 on the final day of Brian's 2016 tour of Australia. The last part of the interview featured a discussion about Darian's work as musical consultant on Love And Mercy.With Tim and Bernie's blessing, Maurice thought it would be a good idea to present this segment as a bonus episode of See Hear. Darian coached the brilliant Paul Dano to play piano in a style similar to Brian, and came up with the idea to use real musicians rather than actors to play The Wrecking Crew as they recorded Pet Sounds. Listen to Darian discuss the creative process in his work on the film."]
Love is Strange (USA/France/Brazil/Greece: Ira Sachs, 2014: 94 mins)
Natoli, Joseph. "Bringing Ira Sachs’ Love Is Strange into Focus." Bright Lights Film Journal (January 23, 2015)
Lucy (France: Luc Besson, 2014: 89 mins)
Francis, Marc. "Splitting the difference: On the queer-feminist divide in Scarlett Johansson’s recent body politics." Jump Cut #57 (Fall 2016)
"Liv Ullman/Chuck Workman/Göran Olsson." Filmwax Radio #260 (December 6, 2014)
Maidan (Ukraine/Netherlands: Sergey Loznitsa, 2014: 134 mins)
Bierend, Doug. "Photos: The Brutal DIY Weapons of the Ukrainian Revolution." Wired (March 11, 2014)
Maleficent (USA/UK: Robert Stromberg, 2014: 97 mins)
Chaw, Walter. "Maleficent." Film Freak Central (May 29, 2014)
Maps to the Stars (Canada/USA/Germany/France: David Cronenberg, 2014: 111 mins)
Lattimer, James. "Evolving Mantras and Restricted Vocabularies." The Notebook (February 23, 2015)
Margarita With a Straw (India: Shonali Bose and Nilesh Maniyar, 2014: 100 mins)
Bose, Shonali. "Margarita With a Straw." Film School (May 20, 2016)
Men, Women and Children (USA: Jason Reitman, 2014: 119 mins)
Flores, Steven. "The Auteurs: Jason Reitman." Cinema Axis (February 26, 2014)
The Midnight Swim (USA: Sarah Adina Smith, 2014: 84 mins)
Small, Courtney, et al. "The Midnight Swim." Changing Reels #7 (December 2, 2016) ["Sarah Adina Smith’s The Midnight Swim is not a film that can easily be summarized. At its core it is a family drama about the connection between three half-sisters and their mother who has mysteriously gone missing. However, it also features elements from the found footage genre, a wonderful musical number, a shawl that is downright creepy, and deep questions about the transcendent nature of death. Needless to say there is a lot to chew on in this episode. We also discuss our short films picks of the week: Donato Sansone’s Journal Anime and Ben Brand’s Life is Beautiful."]
"Liv Ullman/Chuck Workman/Göran Olsson." Filmwax Radio #260 (December 6, 2014)
The Monuments Men (USA/Germany: George Clooney, 2014: 118 mins)
Cravero, Valerie Cox. "The History of The Monuments Men." Dialogic Cinephilia (November 10, 2014)
Mr. Turner (UK/France/Germany: Mike Leigh, 2014: 150 mins)
Leigh, Mike. "Mr. Turner." The Close Up (January 2015)
The M Word (USA: Henry Jaglom, 2014: 117 mins)
Kramer, Gary M. "Henry Jaglom." BOMB (April 29, 2014) ["The cult filmmaker on women, dating, eating, shopping, having babies, and his latest film, The M Word."]
National Gallery (France/USA/UK: Frederick Wiseman, 2014: 180 mins)
"Frederick Wiseman." Filmwax Radio #254 (November 12, 2014)
Ned Rifle (USA: Hal Hartley, 2014: 85 mins)
"Thomas Jay Ryan." Filmwax Radio #265 (January 1, 2015)
Neighbors (USA: Nicholas Stoller, 2014: 97 mins)
"Neighbors and the Transition to Parenthood." Pop Culture Case Study #153 (July 7, 2016)
The New Girlfriend (France: Francois Ozon, 2014: 108 mins)
Flores, Steven. "The Auteurs: Francois Ozon." Cinema Axis (May 20, 2014)
Gilroy, Dan. "Nightcrawler." The Treatment (October 29, 2014)
Kempenaar, Adam and Josh Larsen. "Nightcrawler / Top 5 Nocturnal Movies." Filmspotting #513 (November 7, 2014)
Noah (USA: Darren Aronofsky, 2014: 138 mins)
"Darren Aronofsky." Director's Club #127 (April 7, 2017)
Regarding Susan Sontag (USA: Nancy D. Yates, 2014: 100 mins)
Hughes, Harriet Smith. "On Regarding Susan Sontag." Another Gaze (March 29, 2016)
Young, Bradford. "The Philosophy of Cinematography." The Film Stage (November 5, 2015) [Cinematographer for the films Selma (2014); A Most Violent Year (2014); Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2013); Vara a Blessing (2013); Middle of Nowhere (2012); Pariah (2011)]
Predestination (Australia: The Spierig Brothers, 2014: 97 mins)
Romney, Jonathan. "Inside Your Head: Conceptual Science Fiction." Sight and Sound (February 24, 2015)
Spierig, Michael and Peter Spierig. "Predestination." Final Cut (January 15, 2015)
Queen and Country (Ireland/France/Romania: John Boorman, 2014: 115 mins)
Klawans, Stuart. "American Shooter: Clint Eastwood’s shoot ’em up is remorseless, racist fantasy." The Nation (February 10, 2015)
The Raid 2 (Indonesia/USA: Gareth Evans, 2014: 150 mins)
Hendrix, Grady. "Kaiju Shakedown: The Raid 2." Film Comment (April 1, 2014)
Regarding Susan Sontag (USA: Nancy D. Kates, 2014: 100 mins)
Hughes, Harriet Smith. "On Regarding Susan Sontag." Another Gaze (March 29, 2016)
Robocop (USA: José Padilha, 2014: 117 mins)
Sweedler, Milo. "Class Warfare in the Robocop Films." Jump Cut #56 (Wineter 2014/2015)
Rocks in My Pockets (USA/Latvia: Signe Baumane, 2014: 88 mins)
Rosenberg, Emma. "Staying Sane with Rocks in My Pocket." The Baffler (October 30, 2014)
Rosewater (USA: Jon Stewart, 2014: 103 mins)
Fragoso, Samuel. "Jon Stewart and Rosewater." Keyframe (November 13, 2014) ["Jon Stewart talks about his leave from The Daily Show to follow the Maziar Bahari story."]
The Rover (Australia/USA: David Michôd, 2014: 103 mins)
Swinney, Jacob T. "12 Essential Women Cinematographers." Keyframe (August 10, 2016)
Tafoya, Scout. "The Post-Punk Cinema Manifesto." Keyframe (September 10, 2015)
Anderson, Ariston. "'Creation is Still a Great Adventure': 5 Questions for The Salt of the Earth Director Wim Wenders." Filmmaker (December 3, 2014)
Rosso, John Di. "The Salt of the Earth." Final Cut (April 10, 2015)
Selma (UK/USA/France: Ava DuVernay, 2014: 128 mins)
Gino, Francesca. "You 2.0: Rebel with a Cause." Hidden Brain (August 9, 2019) ["This week, we'll follow Gino on her mission to understand the minds of successful rule breakers. What are their secrets? And how can we discover our own rebel talent? "I think we really need to shift our thinking," says Gino. "Rebels are people who break rules that should be broken. They break rules that hold them and others back, and their way of rule breaking is constructive rather than destructive. It creates positive change.""]
Shelter (USA: Paul Bettany, 2014: 105 mins)
Bettany, Paul, Jennifer Connelly and Anthony Mackie. "Shelter." Charlie Rose (November 12, 2015)
The Skeleton Twins (USA: Craig Johnson, 2014: 93 mins)
Swinney, Jacob T. "12 Essential Women Cinematographers." Keyframe (August 10, 2016)
Nastasi, Alison. "We Exist: The Female Horror Directors of 2014." Balder and Dash (December 29, 2014)
Spies of Mississippi (USA: Dawn Porter, 2014)
Mitchell, Jerry and Dawn Porter. "Spies of Mississippi: New Film on the State-Sponsored Campaign to Defeat the Civil Rights Movement." and "PART 2: Interview with "Spies of Mississippi" Director and Reporter Jerry Mitchell." Democracy Now (February 25, 2014)
Spring (USA: Justin Benson and Aaron Morehead, 2014: 109 mins)
Bradley, S.A. "The Old Gods of Springtime Horror." Hellbent for Horror (April 10, 2018) ["Things might look bright and warm during Springtime, but there's something sinister underneath the surface. The pastel colors of the flowers camouflage the blood and death in the soil that helped them grow. When the difference between life and death depended on a bountiful harvest, people made human sacrifices to appease the Old Gods of the earth. In this episode I talk about horror movies devoted to the Old Gods of Springtime, man's uneasy connection to the earth, and how groups of people can be scarier than the Old Gods themselves."]
---. "Shut Up and Watch the Movie (Part One)." Hellbent for Horror #42 (May 29, 2017)
Starry Eyes (USA/Belgium: Kevin Kolsch and Dennis Widmyer, 2014: 98 mins)
Cleaver, Sarah Kathryn and Mary Wild. "Women in Horror Episode 1: Perfection (The Perfection & Starry Eyes)." Projections (October 30, 2019) ["Welcome to our new series; Women in Horror! We’re starting off on the theme of perfection, discussing trauma, exploitation and the pain of transformation in Starry Eyes (2014) by Kevin Kolsch and Dennis Widmyer and Netflix’s The Perfection (2019) - Richard Shepard."]
Prewitt, Zach. "The Best Horror Cinema of the 21st Cinema." (Posted on Vimeo: October 2016)
Sams, Josh. "The Street Fighter Films: How to And How Not to Adapt a Video Game." Dialogic Cinephilia (October 24, 2016)
Theeb (United Arab Emirates/Qatar/Jordan/UK: Naji Abu Nowar, 2014: 100 mins)
"Watch an 80-Minute Talk with the Directors Behind 2016’s Best Foreign Language Film Nominees." The Film Stage (January 14, 2016)
The Theory of Everything (UK: James Marsh, 2014: 123 mins)
"Diminished Lives." Cineaste (Summer 2015)
Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People (USA: Thomas Allen Harris, 2014: 90 mins)
Harris, Thomas Allen. "Through A Lens Darkly: How African Americans Use Photography to Shape Their Cultural Representation." Democracy Now (Posted on Youtube: January 23, 2014)
Willis, Deborah. "Through a Lens Darkly." The Gist of Freedom (October 18, 2014)
Timbuktu (France/Mauritania: Abderrahmane Sissako, 2014: 97 mins)
Bellaigue, Christopher de. "A Song Against Jihad." NYR Blog (February 22, 2015)
Transcendence (UK/China/USA: Wally Pfister, 2014: 119 mins)
Hudson, David. "Wally Pfister’s Transcendence: Disappointment, pretty much across the board." Keyframe (April 16, 2014)
Transformers: Age of Extinction (USA: Michael Bay, 2014: 165 mins)
O'Hehir, Andrew. "'Transformers': Robot warriors of the Tea Party attack." Salon (June 28, 2014)
Two Days, One Night (Belgium/France/Italy: Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne, 2014: 95 mins)
Cotillard, Marion. "On Her career and Her Roles in Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne's Two Days One Night and James Gray's The Immigrant." The Close-Up #8 (December 2014)
Shambu, Girish. "Two Days, One Night." The Current (August 25, 2015) ["Since the financial crisis, we have increasingly seen a critique of capitalism—even if often only a cautious one—in mainstream media and culture. But usually the underlying assumption in these discussions is that capitalism is a monolithic entity—one that has stood, intact and still, in the same form, for a couple of centuries. The history of economics tells us otherwise. There have in fact been many capitalisms over the years. For example, the Keynesian “controlled capitalism” that took hold in the years of the New Deal, to help relieve national economic suffering in the U.S. during the Great Depression, was quite different from the more rapacious, unregulated capitalism that had reigned a few decades earlier. Since around 1980, we have been witnessing the rise of a new breed of capitalism, neoliberalism, which is achieving global domination with the unwavering agenda of reducing taxes on corporations and the rich, massively deregulating industries, slashing public spending on social programs, and “liberalizing” labor markets (code for giving companies free rein in their hiring and firing decisions). This model of capitalism, after steady escalation over three decades, has now become firmly entrenched in our lives, workplaces, and cultures. And it is on the social and economic repercussions arising from it that the Dardennes have been turning their camera. Their belief is clear: by creating new and indelible images of this virulent model, we can fight it, laying the ground from which a newer, more just social-economic form can grow."]
Bacha, Julia and Amer Shomali. "The Wanted 18: Israel Blocks Palestinian Filmmaker from Making NYC Film Premiere About Intifada Cows." Democracy Now (June 12, 2015)
When Animals Dream (Denmark/France: Jonas Alexander Arnby, 2014: 84 mins)
Bradley, S.A. "Shut Up and Watch the Movie (Part One)." Hellbent for Horror #42 (May 29, 2017)
While We're Young (USA: Noah Baumbach, 2014: 97 mins)
Rosso, Jason Di. "While We're Young." Final Cut (April 17, 2015)
Wildlike (USA: Frank Hall Green, 2014: 104 mins)
Thicknes, Holly. "Examining the Trauma of Child Abuse in Wildlike and The Violators." Another Gaze (Jabuary 17, 2016)
The Wonders (Italy/Switzerland/Germany: Alice Rohrwacher, 2014: 110 mins)
Winner of the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival, Rohrwacher’s vivid story of teenage yearning and confusion revolves around a beekeeping family in rural central Italy: German-speaking father, Italian mother, four girls. Two unexpected arrivals prove disruptive, especially for the pensive oldest daughter, Gelsomina. The father takes in a troubled teenage boy as part of a welfare program, and a television crew shows up to enlist local farmers in a kitschy celebration of Etruscan culinary traditions (a slyly self-mocking Monica Bellucci plays the bewigged host). Louvart’s lensing combines a documentary attention to daily ritual with an evocative atmosphere of mystery to conjure a richly concrete world that is subject to the magical thinking of adolescence. -- The Female Gaze (2018)Frances, Phoebe. "Earth Signs: Reading the Post-Pastoral in Alice Rohrwacher’s The Wonders (‘Le Meraviglie’)." Another Gaze (April 4, 2019)
The Yes Men are Revolting (Netherlands/Denmark/France/Germany/USA: Andy Bichlbaum, Michael Bonanno and Laura Nix, 2014: 91 mins)
Bichlbaum, Andy. "Behind the Hijinks of The Yes Men." Waging Nonviolence (June 4, 2015)
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