©Courtesy of Sundance Film Festival Master directors Jia Zhangke of China and Lav Diaz of the Philippines both believe that films need space and time to breathe. Long, slow takes allow viewers to notice small details, absorb everyday moments, and reflect. Filmmaker Rafael Manuel has taken this philosophy to heart. In his quietly powerful debut…
©Courtesy of the Sundance Film Festival Lithuania knows Russia not as a distant neighbor, but as a shadow in its history — from centuries of conflict to five decades of Soviet occupation (1940–1990). In 1990, the Baltic nation became the first republic to break from the USSR and reclaim its independence. So, when Russia invaded…
©Courtesy of Neon The prologue sets the emotional architecture of “Sentimental Value”, the Grand Prize winner at Cannes. We’re introduced to two sisters’ childhood home — a magnificent red wooden house in Oslo, Norway — that serves as the emotional center of the story. The film then cuts to a young stage actress, moments before her…
©Courtesy of Neon Rave culture has always thrived outside the mainstream, an underground heartbeat pulsing against the silence of daily life. For many, the rave isn’t just music—it’s rebellion, refuge, and pilgrimage. The ravers of “Sirāt“, Oliver Laxe’s Cannes Jury Prize winner and Spain’s Oscar contender, now creating buzz at the New York Film Festival,…
©Courtesy of MUBI She has been called the quietest of the great American directors. Kelly Reichardt doesn’t rush. She clears away the unnecessary and takes her time capturing the American soul. Now she returns with something as unusual and unlikely as an observational heist movie. Her style works wonders. Set in a sleepy Massachusetts suburb…
Photo by Eddy Chen – © courtesy of Black Bear Boxers have always been symbols of grit in a cinema. They fight not just opponents, but demons of pride, poverty, and identity. From Sylvester Stallone’s underdog triumph in “Rocky“ (1976) to Robert De Niro’s bruising portrait of self-destruction in “Raging Bull“ (1980), the ring becomes a…
©Courtesy of TIFF David Lynch’s surreal “Eraserhead“ was about to flicker onto screens, and Jimmy Carter had just been sworn in as president. It was early 1977 — post-Kennedy, post-Watergate America — when Indianapolis businessman Tony Kiritsis stormed into an office and wired a sawed-off shotgun to the back of a mortgage broker’s head. What followed…
©Courtesy of Netflix Watching a Guillermo del Toro film feels like discovering a forgotten fairy tale in a mausoleum — lush, disturbing, and hard to forget. The Mexican filmmaker crafts fables for grownups: grotesque yet tender, brutal yet poetic. More than just spectacle, we can’t stop liking his emotional monsters — from “Pan’s Labyrinth” (2006) to “The…
©Courtesy of Tribeca Festival In youth-oriented, fast-moving, modern societies, many elderly are overlooked and brushed aside, marginalized and isolated, or just have a bad rap. In the autumn of age, it’s too common to become invisible. In cinema, the theme has been explored in various ways, from Poetry to Umberto D., from Nomadland to Tokyo…
Life was dark when French painter Claude Monet, regarded as the father of impressionism, took on the grand scale Water Lilies at the age of 74, a series of around 250 paintings depicting the water garden at his Giverny home. The year was 1914. His son had recently died, World War 1 had just begun,…
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