The key to understanding what First Reformed tries to achieve is Schrader’s identification with slow cinema. In interviews, Paul Schrader...

There is a gallery of moments in the history of horror that have seared themselves into the public dread like the folklore of yore. The...

The best thing about Abel Ferrara's hyper-stylish 1990 neo-noir King of New York is that it's so damn cool. The script is sloppy in...

Mad God follows a gas-masked protagonist as he descends into a psychotic nightmare in search of an object on his map. It's hard to...

Five Easy Pieces is the sophomore feature of Manhattan-born director Bob Rafelson, released in 1970, a year before he produced Peter...

On Saturday night, I attended the 18th annual East Hampton Author’s Night in a tented pavilion in Herrick Park. I heard it referred to as...

In his 2016 feature Paterson, indie legend Jim Jarmusch follows the daily hum drum of a poet bus driver (played by Adam Driver) as he...

At the 3rd annual Montauk Film Festival on July 26th, I attended the director's panel and screenings of four films: Cracked, Wasted...

At the 3rd annual Montauk Film Festival on Monday night, I attended the director's panel and screenings of five shorts: The Weedy One,...

At the 3rd annual Montauk Film Festival on Sunday night, I attended the director's panel and screenings of four inventive and sharp...

It's rare that a father-son duo becomes renowned in their respective crafts to the degree that impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste...

I have long been a fan of Robert Bresson's minimalism, as seen in A Man Escaped (1956) and L'Argent (1983); with his unique centering on...

Simply put, Come And See is the best war movie I’ve seen. It has displaced my previous favorites of Cimino's The Deer Hunter and...

When legend of the indie New York scene and "No Wave Cinema" auteur Jim Jarmusch set out to write Ghost Dog, I wish I could have heard...

The major set piece in Herzog's Fitzcarraldo — hauling a 320-ton steamship over a jungle mountain with 19th Century tech and indigenous...

After recently rereading Tom Wolfe’s satire of the abstract art world in The Painted Word, I was feeling particularly skeptical of modern...

Gordon and Benning’s The United States of America is an intriguing time capsule of 70s America and a proper introduction to structuralist...

In A Woman Under the Influence (1974), Peter Falk and Gena Rowlands bring two woundingly intimate performances; they are often so...

In the late 90s and early 2000s, David Fincher had one of the most immediately recognizable visual styles in the thriller genre and in...

In August 2022, I had the opportunity to interview legendary independent director of the New Hollywood generation Brian De Palma in New...