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In 1982, Godfrey Reggio altered the cinematic landscape with Koyaanisqatsi, an immaculate, haunting film composed of documentary footage of life on earth that pondered the fraught relationship between man, modernity, and nature. This film, along with the other two documentaries in Reggio’s hypnotic “Qatsi” trilogy, 1988’s Powaqqatsi and 2002’s Naqoyqatsi, captures the majesty and complexities of earth and...

The Grand Budapest Hotel

The Grand Budapest Hotel

Partway through The Grand Budapest Hotel, there’s an argument between Dmitri (Adrien Brody, looking brilliantly evil) and his deceased mother’s lawyer (Jeff Goldblum). The lawyer refuses to hand the...

Eagulls – Eagulls

Eagulls – Eagulls

By Max Freedman

For a band named after a bird (and a pun on Don Henley’s crew), Eagulls sure are fascinated by the human body. In September 2013, this British outfit released...

The Rocket

The Rocket

In an early sequence in The Rocket, a Laos-set underdog fable by Australian filmmaker Kim Mordaunt, we see our 10-year-old hero Ahlo (Sitthiphon Disamoe, whose chin is perpetually tilted upward...

Grand Piano

Grand Piano

By Jonathan Andrews

Every once in a while, we all see one of those special films – something that pushes the boundaries, defies expectations, breaks down the walls and makes us reconsider...

If You Build It

If You Build It

In 2010 Emily Pilloton and Matthew Miller, two architect-activists living in the Bay Area (who upon meeting developed a fast attraction to one another) migrated cross-country to the dilapidated...

7 Boxes

7 Boxes

7 Boxes is a cat-and-mouse chase movie set in a seedy marketplace in the Paraguayan capital of Asunción, whose breakneck pace is its saving grace, for better or for worse....

St. Vincent – St. Vincent

St. Vincent – St. Vincent

By Max Freedman

How’s this for a compliment? Rolling Stone recently deemed St. Vincent “the most thrilling solo artist in indie rock right now.” It’s no small feat to receive this level...

In Secret

In Secret

By Ananda Dillon

Émile Zola’s definitive novel Thérèse Raquin has been translated to screen and stage too many times to count. Perhaps because it’s the definitive tale of forbidden lust gone way,...

Almost Human

Almost Human

Writer/director Joe Begos has fashioned Almost Human, his debut feature, as a love letter to 80s horror/sci-fi schlock. The film opens with Seth (Graham Skipper) arriving at his friend...

Hank: 5 Years From the Brink

Hank: 5 Years From the Brink

A layman’s guide to the ins and outs of the 2007-08 financial crisis, Hank: 5 Years From the Brink does a good job of clearing things up for the uninformed, but...

Awful Nice

Awful Nice

By Dustin Jansick

If you grew up with a sibling close in age as you there is a good chance you can attest that sibling rivalry is very much a real thing....

Sick Birds Die Easy

Sick Birds Die Easy

By Dustin Jansick

If you spent the better part of the 00s listening the emo/indie bands on the Saddle Creek record label (Bright Eyes, The Faint, Cursive, Maria Taylor) like I have,...

Omar

Omar

A few shades darker than your average thriller, writer-director Hany Abu-Assad’s Omar, a nominee for the 2014 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, explores the psychological trauma endured by the...

Phantogram – Voices

Phantogram – Voices

By Max Freedman

Phantogram’s career to date has proven that an artist’s musical approaches can be scattershot and haphazard without coming off messy or amateurish. Their debut LP Eyelid Movies dabbled in...

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