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Aug 22, 2024 | 
artreview.com | Caitlin Quinlan
A new swathe of films are rejecting realism and returning to a bolder, more liberated kind of filmmaking. Why did we ever want films to be real in the first place? In 1967, the renowned French film critic and theorist André Bazin famously heralded realism in cinema as the truest pursuit of the form, cautiously aware of the power of other modes like expressionism or dialectical montage to ‘cheat’, ‘trick’ or ‘deform’ the real.
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Jul 18, 2024 | 
frieze.com | Caitlin Quinlan
In Twister (Jan de Bont, 1996), when doomed love interest Melissa gets a taste of her fiancé Bill’s past life, it’s a little more than she expected.
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Jun 13, 2024 | 
mubi.com | Caitlin Quinlan
Somewhere between dystopian and historical fiction, reality and the imaginary, dreaming and waking, sits East of Noon (2024), the second feature film by the Egyptian visual artist and filmmaker Hala Elkoussy.
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May 13, 2024 | 
mubi.com | Caitlin Quinlan
This interview, part of our Cannes 2024 coverage, was originally published in the Notebook Cannes Special, a limited-edition print publication distributed at the Cannes Film Festival. The cinema of Andrea Arnold—where the industrial landscapes of working-class Britain and the US are home to stories of disenfranchised, defiant youth—is defined by its vivid intimacy.
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Mar 11, 2024 | 
reverseshot.org | Caitlin Quinlan
In the Dust By Caitlin Quinlan Sujo Dir. Fernanda Valadez and Astrid Rondero, Mexico/U.S./France, no distributor Sujo screens Wednesday, March 13, at Museum of the Moving Image as the Opening Night selection of First Look 2024. In Identifying Features, the first feature-film collaboration between Mexican filmmakers Fernanda Valadez and Astrid Rondero from 2020, the backs of characters’ heads are shown almost as frequently as their faces.
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Dec 5, 2023 | 
artreview.com | Caitlin Quinlan
The year in film: 2023 had plenty of films for ‘everyone’, but what does that tell us about the state of filmmaking today? Once the hot-pink hysteria in July surrounding Greta Gerwig’s Barbie died down, there remained one central question: who was the film for? Was its entry-level feminism acceptable because it was a film for children, learning about the world’s ills for the first time?
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Oct 26, 2023 | 
reverseshot.org | Caitlin Quinlan
One World By Caitlin Quinlan Spaces of Exception Dir. Matt Peterson and Malek Rasamny, U.S., self-distributed Playing at New York’s Anthology Film Archives October 27–30. It is a terrible thought to have while watching a film, but given recent circumstances, I couldn’t help wondering how many of the people featured in Matt Peterson and Malek Rasamny’s Spaces of Exception are still alive.
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Oct 11, 2023 | 
reverseshot.org | Caitlin Quinlan
Behind Bars By Caitlin Quinlan NYFF 2023: The Delinquents Dir. Rodrigo Moreno, Argentina, MUBI If your place of work already looks and feels like a prison cell, with heavy padlocked doors, thick iron bars, and regimented procedures, does it really make a difference if you swap one for the other? In Rodrigo Moreno’s The Delinquents, Buenos Aires bank treasurer Morán (Daniel Elías) thinks not.
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Sep 28, 2023 | 
bfi.org.uk | Philip Concannon |Pamela Hutchinson |Mar Diestro-Dópido |Caitlin Quinlan
Tony Leung and Aaron Kwok star as crooked cops in Philip Yung’s entertaining, decades-spanning true-crime story where fascinating incidents in Hong Kong’s history are skimmed over too quickly. 28 September 2023By Philip ConcannonNews, reviews and archive features every Friday, and information about our latest magazine once a month. Where the Wind Blows has not had a straightforward path to the big screen.
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Sep 28, 2023 | 
bfi.org.uk | Pamela Hutchinson |Mar Diestro-Dópido |Caitlin Quinlan |Lou Thomas
A landlord of a failing pub in County Durham befriends a Syrian refugee and attempts to quell tensions between their two communities in this sobering film that may well be Loach’s last. 28 September 2023By Pamela HutchinsonNews, reviews and archive features every Friday, and information about our latest magazine once a month. Ken Loach, veteran of a formidable six-decade career in British film and television, has stated that The Old Oak may well be his last film.
