S Categories Features Festivals Movies SXSW 2023 March 23, 2023 SXSW 2023: You Can Call Me Bill, Hung Up on A Dream, Going Varsity in Mariachi, & Angel Applicant A quartet of docs investigate how art affects its creators and its audience.
M Categories Movies Reviews November 16, 2022 Master of Light paints a portrait of a little known artist Rosa Ruth Boesten directs a moving documentary about George Anthony Morton, who paints his way through a troubled mind & past.
& Categories Movies Reviews March 21, 2021 “Wojnarowicz” is a powerful portrait of an artist who took no prisoners Chris McKim's documentary about the fiery artist turned AIDS activist is a stirring tribute to voices that were silenced too soon.
S Categories Festivals Movies Sundance 2020 January 24, 2020 Sundance 2020: “The Painter and the Thief” Finds Activity in Passivity Benjamin Ree documents the budding, murky friendship between a painter and the man who stole her painting.
M Categories Features November 20, 2019 Martin Scorsese Is A Great Filmmaker, and Dead Wrong About Marvel There's a lot more nuance to be found in the discourse surrounding Marvel movies and arthouse cinema.
& Categories Movies June 14, 2019 “The Proposal” Succeeds Thanks to a Focus on the Questions Jill Magid’s documentary delves into messy conversations about the link between art and legacy, becoming a short but compelling work of its own. NOW STREAMING:..
C Categories Cannes 2019 Festivals Movies May 27, 2019 Cannes Review: “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” Paints a Picture of Incredible Passion Céline Sciamma's queer period romance is an intimate visual feast, filled with uncanny empathy and admirable aesthetics.
R Categories Movies March 4, 2019 Ruben Brandt, Collector Review: A Swirling, Surreal Heist Thriller The Hungarian animated film is a stunningly psychedelic dive into art and film history.
S Categories Festivals Movies Sundance 2019 February 1, 2019 Sundance 1/31 Dispatch: Share, Velvet Buzzsaw Day 4 of Sundance shows us a neon-lit social media nightmare in Share, as well as Dan Gilroy's arch, uneven art world critique Velvet Buzzsaw.
& Categories Movies February 1, 2019 “Velvet Buzzsaw” Review: Dan Gilroy Presents a Gallery of Garish Scares High art meets low-grade horror in Dan Gilroy's big, chancey dark satire of the high-priced modern art market.