Brett says: “In THE WOLVES ALWAYS COME AT NIGHT, Director Gabrielle Brady offers a documentary-fiction hybrid that is sure to appeal to fans of the unique genre. The subjects are members of a family of herders in rural Mongolia who
Michael says: “As a follow-up to his beautiful film, AND THEN WE DANCED, Levan Akin creates another powerful, humanistic drama in CROSSING. Again focusing on the Georgian community, this time Akin follows his cast to Istanbul and a retired teacher looking
Chris says: “Sifting through and reminiscing about one’s own past is easy; contextualizing these memories and enabling them to resonate with an audience is trickier, as one has likely experienced in many an autobiographical narrative or essay film (Chris Marker
Brett says: “The title of the documentary SECRET MALL APARTMENT might appear to tell a person everything one needs to know, as four creative adults find an anomaly in the architecture of a local Providence mega-mall in the early 2000s
Michael says: “I’m always happy when PIFF keeps the ‘I’ for international in mind during programming. This powerful Japanese film, EGOIST, turned out to be one of my top films of the festival, and one that I felt confident in recommending
Michael says: “I wavered between 4 and 4 1/2 cats for this 3 hour+ examination of misanthropy, truth, and isolation from master filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan, before leaning to the near perfect. Could be because I have a penchant for
Diane says: “For viewers interested in death and dying, LAST FLIGHT HOME is a powerful film. Documentarian Ondi Timoner wasn’t expecting to make a movie—she just habitually films everything in her family’s life. But when she began to create a
Brett says: “A follow-up from director Ruben Öslund’s FORCE MAJEURE, TRIANGLE OF SADNESS is a dark satire that some will call ingenious layering and build, while others will leave scratching their heads with doubt as to how anyone could praise
Thom says: “I certainly did not go into this film with any extraordinary expectations other than the presence of Adam Driver (and he is, as usual, impeccably brilliant). Director Ridley Scott has had a remarkably diverse career of such varied