Review: King Rocker (2020)
King Rocker could have been a story of failure, as the singer himself initially suggested, but instead Lee crafts it into a heart-warming tale of heroic endurance in the face of critical and commercial indifference.
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Review: Sisters With Transistors (2020)
The London-based Rovner’s engaging feature debut seeks to redress the testosterone-heavy history of machine-made symphonies by celebrating underrated, overlooked composers including Delia Derbyshire, Pauline Oliveros and Laurie Spiegel.
Film Review: You Don’t Nomi (2019)
Widely mocked and reviled on its 1995 release, Showgirls soon exploded into a Chernobyl-sized catastrophe that remains culturally radioactive even 25 years later.
Review: Une Femme, Ma Mère (2019)
Demers unearths plenty of long-buried family secrets during his research for Une Femme, Ma Mère, but he never forgets his crucial role as a storyteller, and makes no firm claims on definitive journalistic truth.
Review: The Fall (2019)
As with all of Glazer’s films, The Fall combines high technical polish with strong aesthetic choices.
Review: Scheme Birds
An emotionally raw depiction of working-class life in contemporary Scotland, Scheme Birds could easily have been just another depressingly drab slab of critic-friendly misery porn.
Review: State Funeral (2019)
State Funeral is not a conventionally informative documentary. Its stately pace, repetitive rhythms and generous two-hours-plus running time all require patience and focus. But the film’s cumulative power lies in its understatement.
Review: A Machine To Live In (2020)
The feature debut of Chicago-based visual artists and cinematographers Meredith Zielke and Yoni Goldstein, A Machine to Live In is an impressionistic portrait of Brazil’s iconic federal capital Brasilia…
Review: SJÄLÖ-Island of Souls (2020)
Själö – also known as Seili in its alternative Finnish spelling – is the subject of Lotta Petronella’s lyrical film Island of Souls, which earned a Special Mention from the Nordic Jury at CPH:DOX festival last week.
