It is difficult to find a purer form of documentary than the Beirut Trilogy, which fulfills exactly the promise of the medium’s name. The three films document glimpses of the life of a cosmopolitan city – once known as “the Paris of the Middle East”
Read MoreIt’s something of a shame that Billy Preston never starred in a western.
Read MoreThe film does not directly concern itself with His Holiness’ public image nor frame itself through an editorial lens. Rather, it sits back and lets the man himself tell the story.
Read MoreAt the beginning of Craig Boreham’s erotic drama Lonesome, we see a young man (Josh Lavery) hitchhiking down a rural highway. We don’t know who he is or where he’s going, just that he’s a cowboy.
Read MoreIf you have ever cut out images from a fashion magazine and pasted them together into a collage, then Under Your Smell at Photo Elysée, Lausanne, will feel somewhat familiar.
Read MoreThe Swiss film producer Walter Saxer made his first trip to the Amazonian jungle in Peru in 1977. He worked there for five years as the lead production manager for Werner Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo, which is well-known today for its troubled production history.
Read MoreThe first episode of the fourth and final season of Atlanta sees its main characters returning from a European tour and lost in their own city.
Read MoreA recent USA Today article presents Paper Girls as part of a summer wave of ‘80s nostalgia, which is somewhat odd given that only the first of its eight episodes takes place in the decade.
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