I joined FC Editor-in-Chief Nicolas Rapold to chat with the directors of Bacurau about five key scenes from their thrilling class-warfare satire
Category: festivals
brazil in a black mirror: how “bacurau” turns the western on its head
Directors Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles explain the eerie prescience of their genre-bending thriller in which the cowboys are the Indians and the Indians are the cowboys.
the film comment podcast: state of the nation
I was a panelist on Film Comment’s first NYFF57 talk, on the complex interplay between politics and cinema
women making film at toronto 2019
Women of the world, take over: this year’s festival featured bracing, inspired films by up-and-coming women directors from all over the world
interview: rabah ameur-zaïmeche
Here, there, and everywhere: the director of Terminal Sud discusses the universal resonances of his elliptical French-Algerian thriller
toronto dispatch: marriage story
Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story more compelling as an account not of love, but of its absorption into the language of law
the film comment podcast: toronto 2019 #2
I appeared on The Film Comment Podcast to discuss more movies from Toronto 2019, including Lina from Lima, Synonyms, Terminal Sud, and more
the film comment podcast: toronto 2019 #1
I appeared on The Film Comment Podcast’s first Toronto 2019 dispatch to discuss Knives Out, The Lost Okoroshi, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood and more
the film comment podcast: venice 2019 preview
I appeared on The Film Comment Podcast to preview lineup of the 2019 Venice Film Festival, featuring The Perfect Candidate, About Endlessness, Waiting for the Barbarians, etc.
open city docs 2019: caballerango
On intimacy, intuition, and “speaking nearby” in Juan Pablo González’s Caballerango and other films.
