2024
Nostalgia of a (Still) Alive Heart, The Film Verdict, September (review)
Saint Clare, The Film Verdict, September (review)
Swing Bout, The Film Verdict, September (review)
Telepathic Letters, The Film Verdict, September (review)
Bits, The Film Verdict, September (review)
Traumnovelle, The Film Verdict, September (review)
Mi Bestia, The Film Verdict, September (review)
Electra, The Film Verdict, September (review)
Skin, The Film Verdict, September (review)
Naqqash Khalid on In Camera, The Skinny, September (interview)
Almost Certainly False, The Film Verdict, September (review)
Three Keenings, The Film Verdict, September (review)
Kora, The Film Verdict, September (review)
The Poison Cat, The Film Verdict, September (review)
The Eggregores’ Theory, The Film Verdict, September (review)
Mother Mara, The Film Verdict, August (review)
On the Way, The Film Verdict, August (review)
Cent’anni, The Film Verdict, August (review)
The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent, The Film Verdict, August (review)
3 MWh, The Film Verdict, August (review)
Like a Sick Yellow, The Film Verdict, August (review)
looking she said I forget, The Film Verdict, August (review)
Freak, The Film Verdict, August (review)
Practice, Practice, Practice, The Film Verdict, August (review)
Night Has Come, The Film Verdict, July (review)
Tiny Lights, The Film Verdict, July (review)
Second Chance, The Film Verdict, July (review)
Windless, The Film Verdict, July (review)
Lapilli, The Film Verdict, July (review)
The Dead Don’t Hurt, The Film Verdict, July (review)
Banzo, The Film Verdict, July (review)
Pirates of the Mediterranean, The Film Verdict, June (review)
Beautiful Lie, The Film Verdict, June (review)
A Toast to St Martiria, Sight & Sound, June (review) [print only]
Omen, Sight & Sound, May (review)
Empathfridges, The Film Verdict, April (review)
If I die, will I go home?, The Film Verdict, April (review)
Hafey, The Film Verdict, April (review)
for here am i sitting in a tin can far above the world, The Film Verdict, February (review)
That’s All from Me, The Film Verdict, February (review)
Tako Tsubo, The Film Verdict, February (review)
In Praise of Slowness, The Film Verdict, February (review)
The Moon Also Rises, The Film Verdict, February (review)
Towards the Sun, Far from the Center, The Film Verdict, February (review)
Remains of the Hot Day, The Film Verdict, February (review)
Bye Bye Turtle, The Film Verdict, February (review)
Pepe, The Film Verdict, February (review)
Circle, The Film Verdict, February (review)
Meanwhile on Earth, The Film Verdict, February (review)
Muna, The Film Verdict, February (review)
78 Days, The Film Verdict, February (review)
The artists who made it in London against the odds, Apollo Magazine, February (feature)
Daphne was a torso ending in leaves, The Film Verdict, January (review)
Tenement, The Film Verdict, January (review)
History Is Written at Night, The Film Verdict, January (review)
DUCK, The Film Verdict, January (review)
2023
Fallen Leaves, The Skinny, November (review)
14 Paintings, The Film Verdict, November (review)
Between Delicate and Violent, The Film Verdict, November (review)
I Would Like to Rage, The Film Verdict, November (review)
Salvaged Histories: António Campos, Sight & Sound, November (feature) [print only]
An Asian Ghost Story, The Film Verdict, October (review)
Compound Eyes of Tropical, The Film Verdict, October (review)
In Camera: All the world’s a stage, Belfast Film Festival, October (feature)
Lumene: Privatisation, The Film Verdict, October (review)
Zima, The Film Verdict, October (review)
Three Windows on South West, The Film Verdict, October (review)
Samsara, Sight & Sound, October (review)
We Are the Hollow Men, The Film Verdict, September (review)
Pirsas, The Film Verdict, September (review)
Amma ki Katha, The Film Verdict, September (review)
Single Light, The Film Verdict, September (review)
Trailer of a Film That Will Never Exist: “Phony Wars”, The Film Verdict, September (review)
Grill, The Film Verdict, September (review)
Seaweed, The Film Verdict, September (review)
From Dawn Till Noon on the Sea, The Film Verdict, September (review)
Our Males and Females, The Film Verdict, September (review)
Robot Dreams, The Film Verdict, September (review)
Dream Maker, The Film Verdict, September (review)
Cleaner, The Film Verdict, September (review)
Wander to Wonder, The Film Verdict, September (review)
We Should All Be Futurists, The Film Verdict, September (review)
Gasoline Rainbow, The Film Verdict, September (review)
Sentimental Stories, The Film Verdict, September (review)
Sea Salt, The Film Verdict, September (review)
In the Shadow of the Cypress, The Film Verdict, September (review)
On the waterfront: the Liverpool Biennial, Sight & Sound, September (feature) [print only]
The Nettle Dress, Sight & Sound, September (review) [print only]
The Way We Were, Open City Documentary Festival, September (feature)
Requiem to the Hot Days of Summer, The Film Verdict, August (review)
Fran and Verka; or A Usual Day in an Abandoned Village, The Film Verdict, August (review)
From the Corner of My Eyes, The Film Verdict, August (review)
Medium, The Film Verdict, August (review)
Lost Children, The Film Verdict, August (review)
Blessed by Holy Light, Cold Open Stories, August (flash fiction)
Self-Portrait Along the Borderline, The Film Verdict, August (review)
Valerija, The Film Verdict, August (review)
29th Sarajevo Film Festival Opens Its Doors, The Film Verdict, August (feature)
Dammi, The Film Verdict, August (review)
Kill ‘Em All, The Film Verdict, August (review)
iNTELLIGENCE, The Film Verdict, August (review)
NIGHT SHIFT, The Film Verdict, August (review)
A Tortoise’s Year of Fate, The Film Verdict, August (review)
The Cinema of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub, Sight & Sound, July (review) [print only]
Feathers, Sight & Sound, July (review)
Dancing on the Edge of a Volcano, The Film Verdict, July (review)
Red Rooms, The Film Verdict, July (review)
The Hypnosis, The Film Verdict, July (review)
Shorts That Impress Us at KVIFF 57, The Film Verdict, July (feature)
Empty Nets, The Film Verdict, July (review)
In Camera, The Film Verdict, July (review)
The Lost Children, The Film Verdict, July (review)
Anselm, The Film Verdict, May (review)
The Goldman Case, The Film Verdict, May (review)
Ignorant Rock, Sentimental Layer, MAP Magazine, May (festival report)
Everything Everywhere Again Alive, Sight and Sound, May (review) [print only]
Portrait of Kaye, Sight and Sound, May (review)
Interview: Katharine Fry, ALT/KINO, April (interview)
Martika Ramirez Escobar on Leonor Will Never Die, The Skinny, April (interview)
Endings: Variety, Sight and Sound, April (feature) [print only]
My Imaginary Country, Indie Cinema Guide, March (preview)
Leonor Will Never Die, Indie Cinema Guide, March (preview)
Luke Fowler on his Margaret Tait film Being in a Place, The Skinny, March (interview)
Electric Malady, Sight and Sound, March (review)
Three more docs about docs, Sight and Sound, March (side feature) [print only]
Hidden gems: beDevil, Sight and Sound, March (feature contribution) [print only]
Progress Meets Paranoia in Home Invasion, Hyperallergic, February (review)
Dipped in Black, The Film Verdict, February (review)
A Kind of Testament, The Film Verdict, February (review)
Terra Mater - Mother Land, The Film Verdict, February (review)
Waking Up in Silence, The Film Verdict, February (review)
Jill, Uncredited, The Film Verdict, February (review)
Last Things, The Film Verdict, February (review)
Geology of Separation, Sight and Sound, February (review)
Não Sou Nada - The Nothingness Club, Sight and Sound, February (review)
More films by Laura Poitras, Sight and Sound, February (side feature) [print only]
Husband, Sight and Sound, February (review)
Human Nature, The Film Verdict, January (review)
Natura, The Film Verdict, January (review)
Southern Storm, The Film Verdict, January (review)
Prosinečki, The Film Verduct, January (review)
Tito, The Film Verduct, January (review)
Night and Fear, The Film Verduct, January (review)
ALiEN0089, The Film Verduct, January (review)
Darkling, The Film Verduct, January (review)
2022
The Draughtsman’s Contract, Sight and Sound, December (review) [print only]
More works by Adam Curtis, Sight and Sound, December (side feature) [print only]
Russia 1985-1999: Traumazone, Sight and Sound, December (review) [print only]
Uncanny Me, The Film Verdict, November (review)
Mother Earth’s Inner Organs, The Film Verdict, November (review)
FIFA Uncovered, Sight and Sound, November (review)
Devil’s Peak, The Film Verdict, November (review)
Wanderers in Space and Time, Sight and Sound, November (feature) [print only]
How To with John Wilson, Sight and Sound, November (review) [print only]
Motorrodillo, The Film Verdict, October (review)
Sub Terra, The Film Verdict, October (review)
The Mechanics of Fluids, The Film Verdict, October (review)
Make or Break, The Film Verdict, October (review)
On Taphonomy, The Film Verdict, October (review)
Geographies of Solitude, The Film Verdict, October (review)
On the Morning You Wake (to the End of the World), Sight & Sound, October (review)
As Mine Exactly, Sight & Sound, October (review)
Anthony Marra: ‘For every Billy Wilder there is someone like Bertolt Brecht’, Little White Lies, October (interview)
The Shining: A Visual and Cultural Haunting, Sight & Sound, October (review) [print only]
The Rehearsal, Sight & Sound, October (review)
Midwives, Sight & Sound, October (review)
Raw, The Film Verdict, September (review)
The Sound of Dreaming, The Film Verdict, September (review)
Parsley, The Film Verdict, September (review)
Radio Silence, The Film Verdict, September (review)
Still Is, The Film Verdict, September (review)
Brasier, The Film Verdict, September (review)
Look at Me, The Film Verdict, September (review)
Christopher at Sea, The Film Verdict, September (review)
My Girl Friend, The Film Verdict, September (review)
Tria, The Film Verdict, September (review)
Snow in September, The Film Verdict, September (review)
More films by Grant Gee, Sight & Sound, September (side feature) [print only]
The Gold Machine, Sight & Sound, September (review)
Cordillera Dreams : Ben Nicholson on Under the Sky Shelter, Open City Documentary Festival, September (feature)
August Sky, The Film Verdict, September (review)
North Pole, The Film Verdict, September (review)
The Baldwin Archives, The Film Verdict, September (review)
5pm Seaside, The Film Verdict, September (review)
The Water Murmurs, The Film Verdict, September (review)
Love Dog, The Film Verdict, August (review)
Ribs, The Film Verdict, August (review)
That’s How the Summer Ended, The Film Verdict, August (review)
No Place for You in Our Town, The Film Verdict, August (review)
Atonal Glow, The Film Verdict, August (review)
Babajanja, The Film Verdict, August (review)
Liturgy of Anti-tank Obstacles, The Film Verdict, August (review)
Bachelorette Party, The Film Verdict, August (review)
An Experimental AI Film Director Calls it Quits, Hyperallergic, July (feature)
The eyes which see reality: four short films with non-human perspectives, Square Eyes, July (feature)
KVIFF 2022: Our Festival Highlights, CineVue, July (feature)
In Broad Daylight, The Film Verdict, July (review)
The Trees, The Film Verdict, July (review)
Pamfir, The Film Verdict, July (review)
A Provincial Hospital, The Film Verdict, July (review)
Catcave Hysteria, The Film Verdict, July (review)
Fools, The Film Verdict, July (review)
America, The Film Verdict, July (review)
Strasbourg 1518, The Film Verdict, July (review)
Borders of Love, The Film Verdict, July (review)
The Uncle, The Film Verdict, July (review)
Pietà, The Film Verdict, July (review)
The Night, The Film Verdict, July (review)
And Then There Was Love…, The Film Verdict, July (review)
Sideral, The Film Verdict, July (review)
A Bad Feeling About This: Solving Star Wars' problems, The Skinny, June (feature)
Michelangelo Frammartino – ‘The purpose of art is to explore the ineffable’, Little White Lies, June (interview)
More films by Michelangelo Frammartino, Sight & Sound, June (side feature) [print only]
Il Buco, Sight and Sound, June (review)
The Beautiful Game on the Silver Screen, The Skinny, May (feature)
Ice Merchants, The Film Verdict, May (review)
Night Light, The Film Verdict, May (review)
Persona, The Film Verdict, May (review)
Tsutsue, The Film Verdict, May (review)
The Spiral, The Film Verdict, May (review)
Liquid Bread, The Film Verdict, May (review)
The Pass, The Film Verdict, May (review)
On Xerxes’ Throne, The Film Verdict, May (review)
Will You Look At Me, The Film Verdict, May (review)
Amo, The Film Verdict, May (review)
The Stranger, The Film Verdict, May (review)
Wider Screen: Man Marked for Death, 20 Years Later, Sight & Sound, May (feature) [print only]
Found Footage & Collage Films: Selected Works, Sight & Sound, May (review) [print only]
Spotlight: Leah Purcell, Sight & Sound, May (side feature) [print only]
The Drover’s Wide: The Legend of Molly Johnson, Sight & Sound, May (review)
The Score: Ilan Eskeri, Composer, Sight & Sound, May (interview) [print only]
An All-Female Gang Sells Black-Market Oil in Dry Ground Burning, Hyperallergic, May (review)
Ten Films to Watch this International Workers Day, The Skinny, April (feature)
Director Laura Wandel: ‘The brutality of the playground is conveyed through noise’, The Guardian, April (interview)
Spotlight: Payal Kapadia, Sight and Sound, April (side feature) [print only]
A Night of Knowing Nothing, Sight and Sound, April (review) [print only]
When There Is No More Music To Write, and other Roman Stories, The Film Verdict, April (review)
Congress of Idling Persons, The Film Verdict, April (review)
Fire of Love, The Film Verdict, April (review)
Mangrove School, The Film Verdict, March (review)
Study of a Fight, The Film Verdict, March (review)
The Abyss, The Film Verdict, March (review)
The Invitation, The Film Verdict, March (review)
Back in the News, The Skinny, March (interview)
Haulout, The Film Verdict, February (review)
Heroines, The Film Verdict, February (review)
It’s Raining Frogs Outside, The Film Verdict, February (review)
North Terminal, The Film Verdict, February (review)
Trap, The Film Verdict, February (review)
Please Baby Please, Sight and Sound, February (review)
Memoir of a Veering Storm, The Film Verdict, February (review)
Memories of the Eastern Front, The Film Verdict, February (review)
Malintzin 17, Sight and Sound, February (review)
Dragon Tooth, The Film Verdict, February (review)
Dirndlschuld, The Film Verdict, February (review)
Agrilogistics, The Film Verdict, February (review)
Oink, The Film Verdict, February (review)
Blue Has No Dimensions, The Film Verdict, February (review)
Kumbuka, The Film Verdict, February (review)
Murmurs of the Jungle, The Film Verdict, February (review)
Tugging Diary, The Film Verdict, February (review)
Nosferasta: First Bite, The Film Verdict, February (review)
Discover the haunting ghost stories of Tracey Moffatt’s beDevil, Little White Lies, February (feature)
Songs for Dying, The Film Verdict, February (review)
Constant, The Film Verdict, February (review)
The Making of Crimes Scenes, The Film Verdict, January (review)
Becoming Male in the Middle Ages, The Film Verdict, January (review)
Nazarbazi, The Film Verdict, January (review)
Warsha, The Film Verdict, January (review)
Egúngún (Masquerade), The Film Verdict, January (review)
Listen to the Beat of Our Images, The Film Verdict, January (review)
Tundra, The Film Verdict, January (review)
Sandstorm, The Film Verdict, January (review)
$75,000, The Film Verdict, January (review)
Bestia, The Film Verdict, January (review)
The Headhunter’s Daughter, The Film Verdict, January (review)
Love Stories on the Move, The Film Verdict, January (review)
Zoon, The Film Verdict, January (review)
Lost Flowers, The Film Verdict, January (review)
Licorice Pizza, Sight and Sound, January (review)
2021
2021: the year in documentary, Sight and Sound, December (feature)
Bloodsuckers, Sight and Sound, December (feature) [print only]
C’Mon C’Mon, Sight and Sound, December (review)
In praise of Youn Yuh-jung – Korean cinema’s most enduring star, Little White Lies, November (feature)
The best of Experimenta at BFI London Film Festival 2021, Sight and Sound, October (feature)
Il Buco takes viewers on a meditative dive through the caves of Calabria, Sight and Sound, October (review)
The Silence Before Bach/Mudanza, Sight and Sound, September (review) [print only]
El Father Plays Himself, Sight and Sound, September (review) [print only]
10 great films about drinking, British Film Institute, July (feature)
The Filmmaker’s House finds Marc Isaacs working from home, Sight and Sound, June (review)
Gunda gets down and dirty with a sow, Sight and Sound, June (review)
Matthew Barney on his new film Redoubt, and why exhibition is the best way to see it, Sight and Sound, May (interview)
Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival 2021 round-up: loops and cycles in a world of stasis, Sight and Sound, May (feature)
They Lay on the Floor Like Starfish, MAP Magazine, April (feature)
Highlights from the 59th Ann Arbor Film Festival, ALT/KINO, April (feature)
Black Bear, Little White Lies, April (review)
Krabi, 2562 on Blu-ray, ALT/KINO, March (review)
2020
Waxworks, Sight and Sound, December (review) [print only]
25FPS correspondences #4: 'Visions', ALT/KINO, October (feature)
25FPS correspondences #2: ‘Frames’, ALT/KINO, September (feature)
Profile: Stephen Broomer, Sight and Sound, September (feature) [print only]
The Whalebone Box, Sight and Sound, April (review) [originally in print but made available online]
Interview: Pedro Costa, dir. Vitalina Varela, CineVue, March (interview)
William Fowler talks about the BFI’s Experimenta Mixtape, ALT/KINO, February (interview)
Where to begin with Bong Joon-ho, British Film Institute, January (feature)
2019
The Year in Expanded Cinema, Sight and Sound, December (feature) [print only]
Stephen Broomer discusses his first feature, 'Potamkin', ALT/KINO, December (interview)
Aquarela, Sight and Sound, December (review) [originally in print but made available online]
Here For Life, Sight and Sound, November (review) [originally in print but made available online]
Our country needs to see this: the early documentaries of Zhao Liang, Blog, October (feature)
Reimagining Cinema from Nature’s Perspective, Hyperallergic, October (feature)
Focus: The Last Male on Earth, The Instrumental Value Of Wildlife, Open City Documentary Festival, September (feature)
Be It True, or Be It Fals: Stephen Broomer Discusses "Tondal's Vision", MUBI Notebook, August (interview)
Monsoon, Sight and Sound, August (review) [originally in print but made available online]
Zia Anger on her live performance essay ‘My First Film’, ALT/KINO, August (interview)
Stones Have Laws, Sight and Sound, August (review) [originally in print but made available online]
New Wave Heroes, Sight and Sound, July (feature) [print only]
Catherine Grant on video essays, ALT/KINO, June (interview)
Ama-San, Sight and Sound, June (review) [print only]
Wild wonder inside and out at Alchemy 2019, Sight and Sound, June (feature)
Diamantino, The Skinny, May (review)
Richard Squires talks about 'Doozy', ALT/KINO, May (interview)
Spaces, Places, MAP Magazine, May (feature)
“Obviously, we live on screens”: how streams and online chat become films, Sight and Sound, April (feature)
Hanging on the Word: A Conversation with Krzysztof Zanussi, MUBI Notebook, April (interview)
Iranian cinema now: ancient mythologies in a modern medium, Sight and Sound, April (feature)
The White Reindeer, Sight and Sound, April (review) [print only]
Donbass, Sight and Sound, April (review) [print only]
Border, Sight and Sound, March (review) [print only]
Ray + Liz, Sight and Sound, March (review)
Jellyfish, Sight and Sound, February (review) [print only]
Diamonds of the Night, The Skinny, January (review)
2018
Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival 2018, MUBI Notebook, November (feature)
Becoming Animal, Sight and Sound, November (review) [print only]
Interiors: Wavelength, Little White Lies, November (feature contribution) [print only]
Coincoin and the Extra Humans, Sight and Sound, October (review)
In search of the locations for the Dirk Bogarde thriller Victim, British Film Institute, October (feature)
The Captain, Sight and Sound, October (review) [print only]
Columbus, Sight and Sound, October (review) [originally in print but made available online]
The Future Perfect: Tomorrow's Thoughts Today on Urban Possibilities, MUBI Notebook, October (feature)
Preview: Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival 2018, The Skinny, September (feature)
Sennan Asbestos Disaster, Sight and Sound, September (review)
Sheffield Doc/Fest’s Doc/Visions 2018: changing tides in documentary cinema, Sight and Sound, August (feature)
Neon Bull, Sight and Sound, August (review) [print only]
Salomé Lamas on her threshold foray Extinction: “I can’t tell apart my life from filmmaking”, Sight and Sound, July (interview)
Ex Libris: The New York Public Library, Sight and Sound, July (review) [print only]
One or Two Questions, Sight and Sound, July (review) [print only]
The Quiet Earth, The Skinny, June (review)
Blake Williams on PROTOTYPE: “Artists are only beginning to discover the full capacity of 3D”, Sight and Sound, June (interview)
Get experimental at Edinburgh International Film Festival, The Skinny, June (feature)
Lek and the Dogs, Sight and Sound, June (review) [originally in print but made available online]
Lek and the Dogs director Andrew Kötting: ‘I’ve become less interested in telling conventional stories’, British Film Institute, June (interview)
Can Movies Save the World? The Girl Chewing Gum, Little White Lies, May (feature contribution) [print only]
Cheese and Worms: A Conversation with Jonas Mekas, MUBI Notebook, April (interview)
Uncertain countries: rethinking the landscape film at Frames of Representation 2018, Sight and Sound, April (feature)
Paradise Lost: Close-Up on "Behemoth", MUBI Notebook, April (review)
Examined Lives: The Films of Krzysztof Zanussi, MUBI Notebook, January (feature)
Where to begin with Sergei Eisenstein, British Film Institute, January (feature)
Song of Granite, Sight and Sound, January (review) [print only]