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In one of the clips of him featured in Never Stand Still, a rough history of northern Massachusetts's Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, the late modern-dance pioneer Ted Shawn...
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As suggested by a scholar in the numinous essay-doc Patience (After Sebald), if the current craze for walking a pilgrim's path can't be tied directly to the German writer W.G....
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Ben (Jason Ritter) and Alan (Jake Sandvig) are young, criminal, and full of pop references in A Bag of Hammers, first-time writer/director Brian Crano's precarious blend of...
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"We're screwed" is the overbearing subtext of so many environmental documentaries that it's a relief to hear someone just come out and say it in Last Call at the Oasis, a...
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A deeply archived and circumspect history of the Joffrey dance company, Joffrey: Mavericks of American Dance does a perfect white swan but has trouble developing much of a...
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A hot dude gets dumped in the opening moments of Going Down in LA-LA Land, a lo-fi feature blend of True West Hollywood Story and a gay fairy tale. We meet Adam (Matthew...
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A blanket of white covers Montreal inside and out in Monsieur Lazhar, the understated, affecting Canadian drama recently nominated for a Best Foreign Film Oscar. The...
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The members of a shivering love triangle configure and reconfigure across a frozen Korean campus-scape in Oki's Movie, four interlocking shorts from director Hong Sang-soo....
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A fragmented, animated bio-retrospective that coaxes the illustrations of Yoshihiro Tatsumi into life, the “bio” part of Tatsumi is heavily drawn from the...
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Like many teenagers, Hannah (Rachel Hendrix) feels screwed up and muses in her diary about why she's alive. Unlike many teenagers, her angst has a specific source, and October...
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There's a lot of mythologizing in All In: The Poker Movie, an adoring, exhaustive survey of the last decade's poker boom and its impact on the culture. Director Douglas Tirola...
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An emancipation story that takes place mostly on the road and on the run, Natural Selection mixes elements of Transamerica and the recent Higher Ground to tell the story of...
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If its presentation is not always as strong as its intentions, Shakespeare High is a reflection of its subjects—the California high schoolers who compete to win the...
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If its title sets down a possible definition of the thing itself, Art Is . . . The Permanent Revolution concerns itself with a secondary question: What does an artist do?...
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In Oscar nominee Chico & Rita, the life of Cuban pianist and composer Bebo Valdés seems to have been translated first into fairy tale and then through the filter of...
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In Scalene, the third feature from Indiana native Zack Parker, suburban intrigue is broken into a puzzle whose pieces refuse a perfect fit. Parker plays with structure, style,...
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In Albatross, director Niall MacCormick's feature debut, Emelia (Jessica Brown Findlay) is a familiar type in a familiar film: 17 years old and smarter, sexier, and...
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Set in the days before and immediately after England's 2005 transit bombings, London River scales the tragedy down to two parents searching for missing college-age children:...
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Images of pubescent boys on horseback—crouched still, hovering over unstoppable animal motion—form a striking visual metaphor in Lads & Jockeys, a discursive study...
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An egalitarian study of crime and punishment in a small Southern town, Into the Abyss is also an unmistakably Herzogian inquiry into the lawlessness of the human soul. That...
