Jordan M. Smith

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L’inhumaine | Blu-ray Review

Shohei Imamura's brutalist depiction of female resilience in his masterwork of 1963, The Insect Woman, echoes the beloved French filmmaker Marcel L'Herbier's monumental silent avant-garde narrative L'inhumaine, which...

Criterion Collection: The Kid | Blu-ray Review

Outfitted with a new score and title sequence, reedited sans several scenes involving the woman, and rereleased in 1972, Charlie Chaplin's first feature length...

The Iron Ministry | DVD Review

Last year, 2.5 billion people traveled by rail across the wild expanse of China. With each passing year the country continues to sink massive...

Unlocking The Cage | 2016 Sundance Film Festival Review

Breaking Through The Bars: Hegedus & Pennebaker Go Ape In Court With Animal Rights Activist Steven Wise Having long ago been crowned the king and queen...

The Land of the Enlightened | 2016 Sundance Film Festival Review

Something Better Better Come: Afghan Kids Reign Supreme In the opening sequence of The Land of the Enlightened following a radio broadcast from President Obama that announces...

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L’Engloutie (The Girl in the Snow) | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

Snow Way: Hémon Delivers Unwanted Help in the High...

Two Prosecutors | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review

Ordeal by Innocence: Loznitsa Mines the Terrors of Naïveté A...

2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 2 – Sergei Loznitsa’s ‘Two Prosecutors’

The Belarusian born, Ukraine filmmaker has loaded up the...

2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 2 – Mascha Schilinski’s ‘Sound of Falling’

A little bit after this year's Berlinale, there was...
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