There’s no such thing as too much Whit Stillman, so kudos to the folks at Curtas Vila do Conde for the beautiful career-spanning retro that will introduce new audiences to his extraordinary body of work. The festival starts with a bang(er): THE LAST DAYS OF DISCO!🇵🇹

74 Rue du Cardinal Lemoine, 2009 / 74 Rue du Cardinale Lemoine, 2025. New paint, same hair, same literary ghosts.

A year ago, as CLOUD bowed in Venice, I sat with Kiyoshi Kurosawa to talk about his latest, and how his role and responsibilities as filmmaker have changed since CURE and PULSE. The chat is up on Filmmaker Magazine; CLOUD is playing at Film at Lincoln Center. Don't miss it: filmmakermagazine.com/127086-intervi…

There’s a lakeside festival in Switzerland that’s felt like home since my first visit (AD 2017), and I couldn’t be happier to be at #locarno78 on behalf of Filmmaker Magazine, The Film Stage 📽 et al. Reviews and interviews forthcoming! 🐆

Why is it that SUPERMAN struggles to believe in its own earnestness? A far cry from the po-faced solemnity of the Snyder era, Gunn's first as DCEU commander in chief doesn't quite square silliness with sincerity. A new Current Debate, for Notebook: mubi.com/en/notebook/po…

BLUE HERON, Sophy Romvari's feature debut, feels like the kind of film all her shorts had worked towards, one where fiction and personal history blend into a harrowing ghost story. It's a triumph. My first #Locarno78 review for The Film Stage 📽: thefilmstage.com/locarno-review…

I didn’t get to explore #locarno78’s British Postwar Cinema retro as much as I’d have liked to, but I’m glad to kick off the journey with BRIGHTON ROCK, introduced by Christopher Small.

Based on Don DeLillo's end-of-the-world play "The Word for Snow," Ben Rivers's MARE'S NEST nails the writer's dialogues in a way other adaptations failed to; it's alienating, disquieting, and restlessly curious. My #locarno78 review for The Film Stage 📽: thefilmstage.com/locarno-review…

Over at Filmmaker Magazine, I spoke with Ben Rivers about MARE'S NEST and his fascination for the writer whose one-act play inspired the film, Don DeLillo. On DDL's work, dystopias, utopias, and forging a new language in these apocalyptic times: filmmakermagazine.com/131516-intervi…