Stories By Dylan Kai Dempsey
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Interviews
Video Interview: Bi Gan – Long Day’s Journey Into Night
April 8, 2019After the critical success of his poetically wistful debut Kaili Blues in 2015, 29-year old Chinese...
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Interviews
New Wave Crash Course: Varda’s Final Call to Action
April 3, 2019~ In Memoriam ~ Agnès Varda, 1928-2019 In 2017, I had the privilege of spending time...
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Film Festivals
Video: Josephine Mackerras’ Alice | 2019 SXSX Film Festival
March 27, 2019Josephine Mackerras’ Alice, winner of SXSW 2019’s Best Narrative Feature prize, tells the story of a...
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Film Festivals
2019 SXSW Film Fest Recap: Us, The Peanut Butter Falcon & Booksmart Lead Dylan Kai Dempsey’s Top 8
March 26, 2019SXSW’s 2019 competition was dominated by talented women. Happily, this best-of-fest list contains several of their...
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Reviews
Us | Review
March 21, 2019Seeing Double: Peele Turns his Camera on Us In the best possible way, Us feels like...
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Reviews
Boyz In The Wood | 2019 SXSW Film Festival Review Ninian Doff
March 20, 2019Ninian Doff Goes Brogue While Delinquents Go Scot-Free Scottish music video-director Ninian Doff offers an uneven but...
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Annual Top Films Lists
Dylan Kai Dempsey’s Top 10 Theatrical Releases of 2018
February 24, 2019Another year of Oscars. Another year of whitewashed, predominantly-male nominations; another year of passionate love/hate from...
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Interviews
Interview: Madeleine Sackler – O.G. / It’s a Hard Truth, Ain’t It
February 23, 2019Known for her eye-opening documentaries, Emmy-winning producer/director Madeleine Sackler had not one but two films in...
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Interviews
Interview: Wolfgang Held – O.G. / It’s a Hard Truth, Ain’t It
February 22, 2019Emmy Award-winning Director of Photography Wolfgang Held had three films at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival:...
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Film Festivals
2019 Sundance Film Fest Recap: Monos, We Are Little Zombies & Cold Case Hammarskjöld Lead Dylan Kai Dempsey’s Top 10
February 19, 2019Almost in direct response to critics’ grumblings—who claimed a lack of any true “hits” at Sundance...