Essays
In this French film, the pragmatic choice to leave one’s home when it is under attack feels anything but rational Tearjerkers, as the crude word suggests, tend to be movies that tug at your heartstrings so forcefully that pure sadness overwhelms you. After the credits roll, however, you can
Essays
A selection of films at the 2021 Frames of Representation film festival in London offer fascinating avenues for documentary cinema As documentaries (or, rather, certain kinds of documentaries) have entered the mainstream in a big way in recent years, so has the basic and self-evident “problem” of documentary’s
Extras
Manuela Lazić writes about two of the films that made the biggest impact on her at the 2021 Open City Documentary Festival in London
Essays
Abel Ferrara and Gianfranco Rosi offer attention and forgiveness in Bad Lieutenant and El Sicario, Room 164 Abel Ferrara’s 1992 film Bad Lieutenant is bluntly titled: its protagonist is just bad, there is no way around it. Even the term “antihero” feels too generous for this drugged up lieutenant