It goes without saying, as with all of Studio Ghibli’s films, that their production of When Marnie Was There is lushly beautiful. It was also the last film to be put out by Studio Ghibli before the studio went on a hiatus prompted by the retirement o …Read more

One enters the story told in The Millay Sisters by way of a sort of tipsy stumble. Rachel Murdy, playing the role of Norma Millay, serves as emcee in a nostalgic cabaret type of set-up, singing songs from the early twentieth century to the piano acco …Read more

Seamus Heaney’s The Burial at Thebes, a translation of Sophocles’ tragedy Antigone, was written as a response to the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Telling the story of one woman who dares to defy a king and society for what she believes is just, The Buri …Read more

Radio inherently has a peculiar character among modes of communication in that it can be at once deeply intimate and small, but also highly communal and far-reaching. One or two individuals with the right equipment in a little room can broadcast acro …Read more

Upon the rupture in his relationship with Paul Verlaine, after Verlaine shot him, the adolescent poet prodigy Arthur Rimbaud declared in his prose poem “Morning of Drunkeness,” “Behold the time of the assassins!” Recalling this poem while taking in t …Read more

Visually and thematically, Hooroo Jackson’s increasingly claustrophobic directorial-debut, Aimy in a Cage, is in many ways a feature-length invocation of Terry Gilliam’s glory days. It also indubitably draws on Tim Burton’s suburban nightmares, the f …Read more

Upon the death in 1923 of their rabbi father who was a dwarf, seven of the ten children of Shimson Eizik Ovitz formed a theatrical ensemble known as the Lilliput Troupe. Being Romanian, these seven children of Ovitz, also dwarves, toured across Roman …Read more

Amidst the rich tapestry of archival footage and home movies from which the documentary Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words is composed, there is a screen-test of the silver screen icon that she did for David O. Selznick upon first arriving in Hollywood …Read more

Starting out from a farm in Missouri, Steve McQueen rose through the ranks of Hollywood to become the King of Cool. Hugely popular flicks like The Great Escape, The Magnificent Seven, Bullitt, and The Thomas Crown Affair served to make McQueen an ico …Read more

The puppetry and multimedia collaboration Shank’s Mare, created by Tom Lee and Koryu Nishikawa V, walks along a web woven somewhere between dream and poetry. It is an amorphous tale with no clear direction and no center that wanders across time and s …Read more