We talked to Anam Abbas about her upcoming film ‘Showgirls of Pakistan’, a documentary feature on the lives of dancing girls in Punjab, Pakistan.
Guest contributor Tristan Marajh questions whether Judd Apatow can be regarded as among the smartest or most compassionate people in Hollywood.
Film critic Chuck Williamson writes on Lindsay Denniberg’s ‘Video Diary of a Lost Girl’, a film “invested in reconfiguring rape culture paradigms”.
Film critic Michael Dodd writes on Bennett Miller’s ‘Foxcatcher’, the most unexpected omission from the Academy’s Best Picture nominations.
Michael Dodd writes on Alejandro González Iñárritu’s ‘Birdman’, “a wry look at modern celebrity and the struggle to keep up with an ever-changing digital and fame-obsessed world”.
Film critic Ben Hynes on Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest, a hazy adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s ‘Inherent Vice’.
Contributing editor Christine Jin writes on David Fincher’s ‘Gone Girl’, last year’s most hotly debated film.
Film critic Chuck Williamson gathers his thoughts on ‘Grace of Monaco’, Olivier Dahan’s much-maligned Cannes 2014 opener.
Ali Zubair writes on ‘Dukhtar’, “the latest in a new wave of Pakistani films driven primarily by the vision of filmmakers and their desire to tell stories beyond the usual commercial motivations”.
Film critic Chuck Williamson interviews Charles Pinion — an ex-artist and punk singer turned transgressive filmmaker — about his methods, philosophy and new film ‘Aztec Blood’.