Jordan M. Smith

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Barbara | Blu-ray Review

German director Christian Petzold's long running collaborative relationship with his starring actress Nina Hoss has been fruitful to say the least. A '12 Berlin...

Tabu | DVD Review

Toying with narrative form seems to be director Miguel Gomes's forte. Our Beloved Month Of August turned the documentation of a musically inclined rural...

Leviathan | Blu-ray Review

This year’s quintessential art doc, Leviathan is the latest feature from Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel, the duo behind Sweetgrass and the driving force...

When I Walk | Review

Encasing Life In Amber: DaSilva Docs Descent With MS In the brief years leading up to 2006, Jason DaSilva was a healthy young filmmaker, traveling...

12 Years a Slave | Review

Reliving Dehumanization: McQueen Lenses Masterpiece of Repressed American History For Steve McQueen, filmmaking has been a hard edged exercise in emotional archeology, burrowing into the...

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Poetic Justice: Blake Draper Unbottled in Patrick Wang’s ‘A. Rimbaud’

American micro-indie filmmaker Patrick Wang of 2011's In the...

Tropical Tapestry: Apichatpong Weerasethakul Won’t Shoot ‘The Fountains of Paradise’ before 2026

In an interview with Les Inrocks folks, Apichatpong Weerasethakul...