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Few features this decade commit more to a formal philosophy than RaMell Ross’ Nickel Boys, which adapts Colson Whitehead’s novel almost entirely from the first-person vantage of its two protagonists when it isn’t––just as compellingly––taking an archival approach to build out its social-political context. Watching the film, it’s nearly impossible not to consider the level…
A movie where six-time Academy Award nominee Amy Adams is so swallowed up by the weight of parenting that she disassociates by transforming into a dog might sound like a bit much. And it is, purposefully so. The body horror comedy “Nightbitch,” an adaptation of Rachel Yoder’s 2021 magical realist novel of the same name,…
A gleefully gory homage to coming of age in the ’90s, Y2K,” the directorial debut of “SNL” vet Kyle Mooney, is as much a love letter to a specific period and also a warning against the trappings of nostalgia. Taking place on New Year’s Eve in 1999, the film takes its elevator pitch of “What…
Director Justin Kurzel’s films have disarmingly explored the ways ideological radicalization coupled with social exclusion can lead to great violence. His latest film, the police procedural The Order,” is the finest distillation of his ability to shade genre thrills with disturbing, real-world relevance. Based on the non-fiction title The Silent Brotherhood, the film is set…
After fearlessly interrogating man’s capacity for evil in Oscar-nominated documentaries The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence, filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer returns with The End, a bunker-bound musical set at the end of the world. Despite that unexpected logline, the core themes Oppenheimer grapples with in his work––i.e. the nature of absolution and the…
Bart Weiss is a longtime North Texas filmmaker, film programmer, teacher (at the University of Texas at Arlington, where he just recently retired), and all around source of wisdom about everything related to cinema. He just published his first book, titled Smartphone Cinema: Making Great Films with Your Mobile Phone. I got to know Bart…
Those who’ve seen his films know Ed Lachman as a key collaborator of (naming just some) Todd Haynes, Sofia Coppola, Steven Sodebergh, Paul Schrader, and Pablo Larraín, with whom his latest collaboration, Maria, is now in theaters and soon on Netflix amidst the studio’s awards blitz. Those who attend EnergaCAMERIMAGE know him as a figurehead,…
In September 2022, a 22-year-old Iranian woman named Mahsa Amini was killed by authorities. She was arrested for alleged non-compliance with the country’s mandatory hijab laws, subsequently collapsing and dying while in their custody. The Iranian government denied any brutality and blamed her death on a pre-existing medical condition, but the young women of Iran…
Three gauchos on horseback gallop across an Argentine landscape, their connection to their animals and their surroundings palpable. In a crumbling church, an elderly gaucho confers with a parish priest, worried that his life has lost its meaning. A young girl risks injury to become part of the gaucho tradition. Moments like these make up…
Latvian animator Gints Zilbalodis’ new wordless animation Flow looks to provide an alternative this holiday season (and awards season) to audiences seeking family fare without the chattiness and slapstick typically associated with the medium. Already a festival darling and possible Oscar contender, Zilbalodis’ film uses wide-angle compositions of lush saturated colors with naturalistic lighting and…
