A ‘talking heads’ documentary can be a bit of a chore when it’s your 33rd film of a festival but the subject matter in Sébastien Lifshitz’s heartfelt documentary keeps you engaged.
Continue readingCasa Susanna (2022)
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Perpetrator (2023)
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“Perpetrator perp-perpetrator, you’re a perpetrator.” The beats of Britney Spears’ Womanizer oddly fit this chaotic, feminist body horror by Jennifer Reeder.
Continue readingIt’s Only Life After All (2023)
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My heart was full after spending two hours with Amy Ray and Emily Saliers a.k.a. the Indigo Girls.
Continue readingHello Dankness (2022)
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Time Bomb Y2K (2022)
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Past Lives (2023)
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Celine Song’s debut feature is a quiet and lyrical ode to inyeon, the Korean term for “the miracle of being in the same room together at the same time.”
Continue readingFairyland (2023)
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I want to say nice things about Andrew Durham’s Fairyland because it gives us an overview of queer culture in San Francisco in the 70s to 90s, a pivotal time.
Continue readingFremont (2023)
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I loved Babak Jalali’s Radio Dreams (2016), and he doesn’t disappoint with the tonally very different but just as meticulous Fremont.
Continue readingIt Lives Inside (2023)
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A guaranteed strategy to stay awake through your third film of the day, is to make sure it’s a horror.
Continue readingBiosphere (2022)
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That an IMDb user gave this one star and called it “an LGBTQ+ movie disguised as a sci-fi” makes me like it even more.
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