Stage productions, cinema, screen culture and performing arts.
Lee Chang-dong returns to Venice with Possible Love, his first feature since Burning — and his first backed by Netflix. On patience, distribution, and what slow cinema is for.
On Pedro Costa's radical patience — how his Fontainhas trilogy turned a demolished Lisbon neighbourhood into one of cinema's great moral landscapes.
No plot, no chronology, his own father's poetry read aloud over the images: on Andrei Tarkovsky's Mirror, still one of cinema's most demanding attempts to film memory itself.
A close reading of Akerman's 1977 film - letters from her mother read over New York footage - as the definitive essay on separation and immigrant identity.