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2 months ago | 
racketmn.com | Nick Kouhi
“Europe has a long history of Afrodescendant presence,” says Lorenzo Fabbri, co-founder of the Black Europe Film Festival of Minneapolis/Saint Paul. “And this presence is increasing.”Hosted by various venues across Minneapolis this weekend, and offering nine features and 22 shorts, the BEFF MSP aims to showcase that presence while establishing a new cultural hub to bridge the local with the global.
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Jun 19, 2024 | 
inreviewonline.com | Nick Kouhi |Luke Gorham
A mother and daughter’s symbiotic bond fuels the artistic crucible that underlies Janet Planet. Such a description, let alone the title, might indicate a film that’s merely riding the coattails of Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird. Fortunately, Annie Baker’s first foray into feature filmmaking is anything but derivative.
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Mar 14, 2024 | 
inreviewonline.com | Nick Kouhi |Luke Gorham
Writing about Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus is a challenge, not least because of its stark minimalism. I can’t recall a concert film as ascetically committed to documenting little more than the intimate dynamic between a musician and their instrument. Produced six months before the iconic composer died of cancer, this final performance encompasses a 20-song setlist of staples and obscurities spanning Sakamoto’s discography.
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Feb 12, 2024 | 
minnpost.com | Nick Kouhi
Film archives bridge the past with the present as well as the local with the global. The challenge facing curators, which has only increased in the 2020s, is how to make these bridges legible and tangible for an audience. One possible solution is to present screenings, a popular staple of Minneapolis film culture that has persevered through the pandemic. That’s where Archives on Screen, Twin Cities,comes in.
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Feb 12, 2024 | 
minnpost.com | Nick Kouhi
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Nov 21, 2023 | 
inreviewonline.com | Nick Kouhi |Luke Gorham
The legacy of a venerated musician comprises the myriad testimonies in They Shot the Piano Player. Colleagues and family of Francisco Tenório Júnior share personal memories of a nearly forgotten figurehead in the Bossa Nova scene whose meteoric rise was brutally curtailed by his disappearance in 1976.
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Nov 16, 2023 | 
inreviewonline.com | Nick Kouhi |Luke Gorham
The legacy of a venerated musician comprises the myriad testimonies in They Shot the Piano Player. Colleagues and family of Francisco Tenório Júnior share personal memories of a nearly forgotten figurehead in the Bossa Nova scene whose meteoric rise was brutally curtailed by his disappearance in 1976.
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Oct 19, 2023 | 
inreviewonline.com | Nick Kouhi |Luke Gorham
Writing about Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus is a challenge, not least because of its stark minimalism. I can’t recall a concert film as ascetically committed to documenting little more than the intimate dynamic between a musician and their instrument. Produced six months before the iconic composer died of cancer, this final performance encompasses a 20-song setlist of staples and obscurities spanning Sakamoto’s discography.
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Oct 13, 2023 | 
inreviewonline.com | Nick Kouhi |Luke Gorham
Credit: NYFF/Film at Lincoln Center After dipping his toes in the waters of English-language filmmaking, Yorgos Lanthimos makes his return to his Greek roots with Bleat, inviting a cadre of international collaborators — notably, his current muse Emma Stone — to participate in a piece commissioned by the National Greek Opera for their Artist on the Composer program.
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Oct 12, 2023 | 
dmovies.org | Nick Kouhi |Stephen Kijak |Woody Allen |Camille Hardman
One of the premier figures of the New Argentine Cinema, Lisandro Alonso’s modest yet striking filmography has developed into a cinematic inquiry into the porous conception of national borders in the new millennium. Alonso has not necessarily forsaken realism, but since Liverpool (2008) he’s deployed a literary structure in ruminating upon how globalisation shapes our connection to people (primarily parents and children) lost to history.
