Jordan M. Smith

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The Royal Road | Review

Jenni Olson begins The Royal Road, her latest emotional excavation of Hollywood nostalgia via Benning-esque 16mm landscape portraiture, by self-referentially quoting Michel Chion on...

Heart of a Dog | Review

Essay films rarely get as much attention as Laurie Anderson's Heart of a Dog as already attracted. The highly regarded performance artist and musician has long...

Criterion Collection: My Own Private Idaho| Blu-ray Review

Patching together portraits of his beloved Portland streets, bits of Shakespeare's Henry IV via Welles' tumultuous Chimes at Midnight, and vignettes of a narcoleptic vagabond hustler whose motherless anxieties...

The Russian Woodpecker | Review

Signals Over The Air: First Time Filmmaker Chad Gracia Sees Russian Conspiracy Theory Transform Into Truth At the dark heart of director Chad Gracia’s messy,...

Video Interview: Daniel Barber (The Keeping Room)

Five years after the Michael Caine vehicle Harry Brown hit theaters, director Daniel Barber has returned to the director's seat with a revisitation to period drama,...

Breaking

Interview: Jordan Firstman – Club Kid

I first took notice of Jordan Firstman through his...

Interview: Chris Rock & Daniel Kaluuya – Misty Green

Well-versed in a cinema working in different strands of...

7 Miles Out | 2026 London BFI Film Festival Review

She’s Lost Control: Morley’s Semi-Autobiographical Drama is Riddled with...

Interview: Benjamín Naishtat & Esteban Bigliardi – Glaxo

World premiering at the 2026 Toronto Intl. Film Festival,...
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