It’s festival season! The FilmSoc blog is covering the 75th Venice International Film Festival (29 August – 8 September), diving into the myriad of films …
Venice Film Festival: ‘The Mountain’ Review
It’s festival season! The FilmSoc blog is covering the 75th Venice International Film Festival (29 August – 8 September), diving into the myriad of films …
Venice Film Festival: ‘First Man’ Review
It’s festival season! The FilmSoc blog is covering the 75th Venice International Film Festival (29 August – 8 September), diving into the myriad of films …
‘Cold War’ Review
Milo Garner reviews Pawel Pawlikowski’s Cannes-winning romance. If Ida was once considered the announcement of a new voice in the tradition of grimly austere European …
‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’ Review
Milo Garner critiques the franchise spin-off. Solo: A Star Wars Story is the exact film so many feared would come out of Disney’s Lucasfilm buyout. An …
‘First Reformed’ Review
Milo Garner reviews Schrader’s drama thriller. Paul Schrader has always been a director influenced by the high arts of cinema, though a cursory browse of …
‘The Thin Red Line’ Retrospective Review
Milo Garner revisits Terrence Malick’s 20-year-old war epic. The opening shot of The Thin Red Line (1998) features a crocodile dipping into water and submerging itself. …
‘Annihilation’ Review
Milo Garner reviews the highly anticipated scifi released on Netflix earlier this month. Alex Garland’s sophomore picture, the grandly-titled Annihilation, seems to promise high-concept sci-fi. …
‘The Touch’ Retrospective Review
Milo Garner looks back at a lesser-known Bergman through a fresh 2K restoration. The Touch (Beröringen) is, quite surprisingly, one of Ingmar Bergman’s most obscure films. …
‘Scenes from a Marriage’ Review
Milo Garner revisits Ingmar Bergman’s study of a couple’s relationship. A masterwork that gathers many of Bergman’s key concerns in his post-Winter Light filmography, the …