Kelli Weston

Jan 6, 2025 | thenation.com | Kelli Weston

Books & the Arts / January 7, 2025 Robert Eggers’s Nosferatu Is a Modern Gothic Triumph Robert Eggers’s “Nosferatu” Is a Modern Gothic Triumph The latest adaptation of the silent film classic evokes anxieties at once eternal and contemporary, using one of horror’s ur-texts to dissect race, sex, and power. Ad Policy Lily-Rose Depp as Ellen Hutter in director Robert Eggers’s Nosferatu.

Oct 29, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Nick Bradshaw |Nick James |Sophia Satchell-Baeza |Kelli Weston

Milisuthando Bongela was born and remembers a happy childhood in a Transkei, the first of white-run South Africa’s Black-assigned ‘homelands’ that was never recognised by most of the world. After apartheid and Transkei’s dissolution, she was one of the first Black children integrated into a mixed school in East London, South Africa, where she learned her inferiority in white eyes against the backdrop of Nelson Mandela’s grandfatherly coaxing of the would-be ‘rainbow nation’.

Oct 24, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Josh Slater-Williams |Sophia Satchell-Baeza |Kelli Weston |Richard G. Combs

An orphaned child struggles to survive the insanities he encounters in the aftermath of the Second World War in Tsukamoto Shinya’s timely period drama. 17 October 2024Prolific since his breakthrough independent works of the 1980s and 90s (the Tetsuo films among them), Tsukamoto Shinya’s directorial output has slowed in the last decade.

Oct 24, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Sophia Satchell-Baeza |Kelli Weston |Richard G. Combs |Leigh Singer

Divisive? ¡Claro que sí! In Jacques Audiard’s latest, the veteran director of blistering dramas such as A Prophet (2009) and Rust and Bone (2012) channels the improbable dream logic of a hepped-up telenovela into a riotous trans musical about crime and redemption. Ruling with terror over the streets of Mexico, the snarling crime kingpin Manitas del Monte (Karla Sofía Gascón) kidnaps a talented but under-achieving lawyer called Rita (Zoe Saldaña) and makes her an offer she can’t refuse.

Sep 22, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Adam Nayman Festivals |Adam Nayman |Sophia Satchell-Baeza |Kelli Weston

Reviewed from the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival. Give Scott Beck and Bryan Woods’ Heretic credit: it’s surely the first movie to thread the conceptual needle between our anxious, post-millennial epistemology and the enduring power-pop perfection of the English band the Hollies.