Vadim Rizov

2 weeks ago | filmmakermagazine.com | Vadim Rizov

Back to selection David Ekwe-Ebobisse in Soldiers of Light by Vadim Rizov in Festivals & Events on Apr 25, 2025 Visions du Réel In 2002, a George W. Bush aide coined the phrase “reality-based community”—a label meant pejoratively, anticipating the present belligerent moment. “That’s not the way the world really works anymore,” that (still!) anonymous official ranted. “We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality.

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Vadim Rizov

5 hours agoThe prospect of smashing imagined limits on his power gives him an obvious thrill. Donald Trump’s interest in seeking an unconstitutional third term as president, like many of his most dangerous or illegal ideas, began as a joke. Trump would muse on the stump that he deserved an extra term because …

1 month ago | filmcomment.com | Vadim Rizov

This article appeared in the March 28, 2025 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the Letter here. Jesus Revolution (Jon Erwin and Brent McCorkle, 2023)In the mid-aughts, enabled by my then-editor, A.A. Dowd of The A.V. Club, I proactively requested review assignments for anti-evolution tracts, the God’s Not Dead franchise, and adjacent mental garbage.

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Back to selection Crista Alfaiate in Grand Tour by Vadim Rizov in Directors, Features, Interviews, Issues, Screenwriters on Mar 18, 2025 Grand Tour, Miguel Gomes, Spring 2025 At its core the story of a man taking extreme measures to avoid his fiancée, Grand Tour originated when Portuguese director Miguel Gomes read W. Somerset Maugham’s The Gentleman in the Parlour (1930) just before his marriage to co-screenwriter Maureen Fazendeiro.

2 months ago | filmmakermagazine.com | Vadim Rizov

Back to selection by Vadim Rizov in Festivals & Events on Mar 14, 2025 True/False Film Fest, True/False Film Fest 2025 Hu Sanshou’s Resurrection premiered at last year’s Taiwan International Documentary Festival; this year, the director was awarded the annual True Vision award at True/False before the first of two showings of this feature.