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Liberté

Liberté

Screen Reviews

Generoso Fierro reviews Albert Serra’s new transgressive feature Liberté, winner of the Special Jury Prize at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival.

Tommaso

Tommaso

Screen Reviews

Generoso reviews Tommaso, the provocative new feature from director Abel Ferrara (Bad Lieutenant, Pasolini), which stars Willem Dafoe and Christina Chiriac.

Sparks

Sparks

Music Reviews

A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip (BMG). Review by Generoso Fierro.

Vitalina Varela

Vitalina Varela

Screen Reviews

Generoso reviews Pedro Costa’s affecting docufiction feature, Vitalina Varela, which won the Best Actress and Golden Leopard awards at the 2019 Locarno International Film Festival.

The Emperor of Michoacan

The Emperor of Michoacan

Screen Reviews

Directors James Ramey and Arturo Pimentel examine the history and culture of the Purépecha people in their feature documentary, The Emperor of Michoacán.

Sofia Bohdanowicz

Sofia Bohdanowicz

Interviews

Lily Fierro speaks with director Sofia Bohdanowicz about her hybrid documentary filmmaking process in her newest film, MS Slavic 7.

Corneliu Porumboiu

Corneliu Porumboiu

Interviews

Generoso speaks with director Corneliu Porumboiu about his new film, an intricate, comedic noir, The Whistlers, which was selected as the Romanian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the Academy Awards.

Best of Film 2019

Best of Film 2019

Screen Reviews

Lily and Generoso select their ten favorite features, a collection of supplemental films, and a best repertory release of 2019.

AFI Fest 2019

AFI Fest 2019

Event Reviews

For the fifth straight year, Lily and Generoso assess a selection of new features from the eclectic program at AFI FEST, Los Angeles’ most prominent film festival.

Ivana Mladenovic

Ivana Mladenovic

Interviews

One of the most compelling films screening at this year’s AFI Fest is the second feature by Serbian director Ivana Mladenovic; Ivana the Terrible. The award-winning filmmaker spoke with Lily and Generoso Fierro at AFI Fest 2019 about weaving fiction into her own reality.

The Tree House

The Tree House

Screen Reviews

One of the most highly regarded works to screen at this year’s Locarno Film Festival was Quý Minh Trương’s The Tree House (Nhà cây), a documentary that dramatically utilizes a science fiction lens to simultaneously examine the cultures of multiple ethnic groups in Vietnam while compelling the audience to question the contemporary importance of visual documentation.

No Place Like Home

No Place Like Home

Screen Reviews

Generoso reviews the astute and prophetic feature, No Place Like Home, Jamaican director Perry Henzell’s long-awaited follow up his cult classic, The Harder They Come, which has been recently restored and is celebrating a short theatrical run and Blu-ray release.

La Flor

La Flor

Screen Reviews

A culmination of a decade of production and featuring the brilliant performances of four actresses realized in six episodes with a running time of 14 hours, director Mariano Llinás’ La Flor is a bold cinematic exploration of fiction filmmaking.

Pasolini

Pasolini

Screen Reviews

Willem Dafoe stars in Abel Ferrara’s look at director and writer Pasolini.

Long Day’s Journey Into Night

Long Day’s Journey Into Night

Screen Reviews

Director Bi Gan’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night is an atmospheric and ambitious deconstruction of cinematic motifs, narrative, and time that forces us to re-evaluate how we understand film, our memories, and how they intertwine.

Eli “Paperboy” Reed

Eli “Paperboy” Reed

Interviews

With the upcoming release of his eagerly awaited new album, 99 Cent Dreams, soul singer Eli “Paperboy” Reed speaks in depth about his songwriting process and working with the legendary vocal group, The Masqueraders, and Grammy winning producer, Matt Ross-Spang, with Generoso Fierro.

Babylon

Babylon

Screen Reviews

Generoso Fierro reviews Italian-English director Franco Rosso’s uncompromised masterpiece about racial tensions in late 70s London, Babylon, which arrives to US theaters for the first time on March 8th.

Touch Me Not

Touch Me Not

Screen Reviews

The winner of the Golden Bear at the 2018 Berlinale, Touch Me Not, Adina Pintilie’s experimental feature, challenges conventions while examining the fear of intimacy.

The Image Book

The Image Book

Screen Reviews

For his 47th feature, The Image Book, which won the first Special Palme d’Or at Cannes, Jean-Luc Godard continues to evolve cinematic language as he searches for the meaning and truth of image and sound.

Talal Derki

Talal Derki

Interviews

Generoso speaks with director, Talal Derki, about his Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature nominated film, Of Fathers and Sons.

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Gasoline Lollipops

Features

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Basket Case

Screen Reviews

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Jimmy Failla

Event Reviews

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Lonnie Walker

Features

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Los Lobos

Event Reviews

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Always… Patsy Cline

Archikulture Digest

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Lorraine of the Lions

Lorraine of the Lions

Screen Reviews

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