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Joshua Bogatin’s Top 10 Films of 2024

Jan 8, 2025 | thefilmstage.com | Joshua Bogatin

Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2024, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists. The point is not to be fair, but to deliver gut-level reactions; to find the films that made me swivel my head and throw up my arms in frustration. 2024 was an uneasy year and I was naturally attracted to films that disquieted me.
A Different Man — Aaron Schimberg | In Review Online

Sep 19, 2024 | inreviewonline.com | Joshua Bogatin |Luke Gorham

“We don’t want to scare people,” a director says at the beginning of Aaron Schimberg’s A Different Man. It’s the set of a workplace educational film on facial deformities and Edward (Sebastian Stan), an actor with elephant man-like neurofibromatosis, is playing a co-worker in distress whose loud moans of fake pain risk producing genuine discomfort.
An Interview with Graham Swon

Aug 2, 2024 | sensesofcinema.com | Joshua Bogatin

There could hardly be a less auspicious way to start a filmmaking career than as a producer on a Matías Piñeiro film, and it wasn’t long after producing Hermia and Helena (2016) that Graham Swon began to clearly emerge as a major voice on the American independent film scene. Primarily working out of New York, he has made a name for himself over the past ten years while working with cinephile-minded directors like Ricky D’Ambrose, Ted Fendt, Dan Sallitt, and Gina Telaroli.
Film’s Struggle Through the Ages: The 8th Annual Nitrate Picture Show

Aug 2, 2024 | sensesofcinema.com | Joshua Bogatin

The only thing to discover at The Nitrate Picture Show is the past. With an entire slate of programming consisting of nothing besides rare nitrate prints, the festival is, by design, prohibited from showing any film made after 1952, the year nitrate film stock was discontinued in favour of acetate film stock. Hosted yearly by the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, New York, the festival is one of the few places where curious cinephiles can still feast their eyes on this discontinued medium.
In on the Game: El Pampero Cine’s DIY Epics

Jul 15, 2024 | mubi.com | Joshua Bogatin

To get to know El Pampero Cine, it would be best to start with their contradictions. Equally screen maximalists and minimalists, they have made some of the biggest small films of the past two decades: consider the ambitious, narrative-hopping epics for which they’re best known, such as La flor (2018, 13½ hours long) and Trenque Lauquen (2022, 4½ hours).
Joanna Arnow on the Misconceptions of BDSM, Filming Comedy, and Conveying the Passage of Time

Apr 25, 2024 | thefilmstage.com | Joshua Bogatin

“Do you think people can change?” Ann (Joanna Arnow) asks her long-term dominant Allen (Scott Cohen) toward the beginning of Joanna Arnow’s second feature, The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed. Told through a series of comic vignettes, the film follows Ann through an indeterminate period of time in her early 30s as she navigates relationships, awkward family dinners, a bland corporate job, and the possibility of changing from her now-ensconced ways.
Am I Really Doing Cinema?: An Interview with Lav Diaz

Apr 5, 2024 | inreviewonline.com | Joshua Bogatin |Luke Gorham

As Lav Diaz’s films have shrunk in reception, they have only grown in eclecticism and importance.
In the Future We Would Splurge for Some Lotted Parking: An Interview with Ryan Martin Brown

Mar 26, 2024 | inreviewonline.com | Joshua Bogatin |Luke Gorham

Slackers have been the bread and butter of indie cinema since 90’s mainstays like Clerks and Slacker helped jumpstart the whole modern American independent film scene in the first place. For young artists and bohemians drawn to filmmaking, that stultifying sense of dissatisfaction and aimlessness key to the slacker is a prescient point from which to examine the trappings of a capitalist culture hooked on the protestant ethic.
Problemista — Julio Torres | In Review Online

Mar 25, 2024 | inreviewonline.com | Joshua Bogatin |Luke Gorham

“Toys are too preoccupied with fun,” Alejandro (Julio Torres) declares in a cover letter to Hasbro during the opening of Torres’ debut feature film Problemista. It’s an amusing way to define Alejandro’s character and sell the film’s offbeat tone, but it’s also a dire philosophy for a film whose main asset is its cute, Gondry-esque penchant for off-kilter fun.
Critic’s Notebook: The 2023 Red Sea International Film Festival

Mar 19, 2024 | filmmakermagazine.com | Joshua Bogatin

Back to selectionby Joshua Bogatin in Festivals & Eventson Mar 19, 2024 Afreet Merati, Mandoob, Naga, Red Sea International Film Festival A series of miles-long empty dirt lots lie wedged between the Ritz Carlton and the Red Sea Mall, the two primary venues of the Red Sea Film Festival in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Barren, with all signs of previous inhabitation fully erased, the site of the future Jeddah central district is a curious sight in the middle of a city of four million.