Isaac Feldberg

2 weeks ago | rogerebert.com | Isaac Feldberg

The Cannes Film Festival has a long-standing tradition of showcasing actors-turned-directors; one of the great thrills of this edition's Un Certain Regard section so far has been the triumphant emergence of Kristen Stewart and Harris Dickinson-both fixtures at the festival in recent years for their performances in films like "Crimes of the Future" and "Triangle of Sadness"-as formidable writer-directors in their own right.

3 weeks ago | letterboxd.com | Isaac Feldberg |Ari Aster

★★★★ A true paroxysm of American pathologies, at once ruthlessly bleak and blackly comic in its frenetic, fractious storm of provocations — this is Aster boldly grabbing hold of the electrified third rail of contemporary discourse and letting precisely 2020 volts of alternating current surge through him. Ambitious, sprawling, unwieldy, deranged, but also his fullest externalization to date of the existential neuroses he’s consumed by as an artist — the difference this time around is that he’s...

1 month ago | chicagocriticsfilmfestival.com | Isaac Feldberg

Tell us about a location that's held significance to the film you're bringing to the festival: a setting where filming took place, a geographic area that provided a source of inspiration, or another type of space that comes to mind for you in thinking about the film. What made this place so special? I have a 1996 Ford Ranger with a camping shell on the back, and it's got a whole cozy vibe in there — Tempur-Pedic bed, string lights, books and such...

1 month ago | chicagocriticsfilmfestival.com | Isaac Feldberg

How did you first become interested in filmmaking? What was your path toward directing your first film? I always loved movies as a kid. I was lucky enough to go to a high school that had a video production class, where half of the year we produced a live TV broadcast for the school, and the other half we got to make short films. I never thought it was a real possibility for any of that to become a career, I just knew I was having a blast.

1 month ago | chicagocriticsfilmfestival.com | Isaac Feldberg

Writer-director Sarah Friedland’s revelatory coming-of-old-age feature, Familiar Touch compassionately follows the winding path of octogenarian Ruth’s shifting memories and desires while remaining rooted in her sage perspective. Ruth (Kathleen Chalfant), a retired cook, prepares breakfast in her sunny and cozy kitchen — a dish she seems to have made many times before, although small and puzzling errors now punctuate her comfortable routine. When her son (H.