Maxwell Courtright
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The intimate bodily motion of “Days” startles its director’s usual stillness of routine
Tsai Ming-liang’s latest socially conscious queer drama is screening as part of Spotlight Cinema on November 10.
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Joan Micklin Silver’s patient films challenged a bombastic Hollywood system
Starting September 24, UW Cinematheque honors the director, who was fascinated by cultural shifts in American society, with a four-film retrospective across four Fridays.
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The unembellished exhibition of Sergei Loznitsa’s Soviet documentaries
The Belarusian filmmaker collects Stalin-era footage for historical and psychological study in two recent works—”State Funeral” and “The Trial”—now streaming on MUBI.
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“My Darling Supermarket” finds the everyday within the profound
Maxwell Courtright tours this Brazilian documentary that praises the lives of those who are now seen as essential workers.
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Jessica Sarah Rinland’s hands-on conservationist cinema
The avant-garde documentarian explores the interplay between natural and unnatural worlds in two recent films now streaming on MUBI.
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Barbara Hammer’s radical personal and political ethos
This week, MUBI is spotlighting two short films—”A Month Of Single Frames” and “Vever (For Barbara)”— that encapsulate the late, great avant-garde filmmaker.
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From “Citadel,” formal reflections of a quarantined year
What John Smith’s avant-garde short film, now streaming on MUBI, tells us about the way we live now.
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The masochistic designs of men in fervent “Faith”
Valentina Pedicini’s final feature, a documentary on a martial arts cult in Italy, is now available on MUBI.
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Sensory ethnography and disability in “Entire Days Together”
Luise Donschen’s new avant-garde short is streaming exclusively on MUBI starting November 4.
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“A Girl Missing” finds tragic drama in a mystery-thriller’s clothing
Kōji Fukada’s poignantly subversive film will be available virtually through MMoCA’s Spotlight Cinema on October 28.
