doe-eyed critic

László Krasznahorkai looks in his younger photos a bit like Thom Yorke. There’s something of the recondite, complex musicianship of Radiohea...

The film opens with a group of Russians discussing Russian literature, naming Gorky, Pushkin and Tolstoy. This sets up the most Dosteyevskia...

There is an economy to everything that occurs in a Kaurismäki movie. Behind the simplicity, the naive dialogue, there is a carefully curated...

On Friday we were lucky enough to attend a talk by the Argentine philosopher, Eduardo Rinesi on Shakespeare. Much of the talk focussed on Ha...

There’s a healthy crowd in at the Museo de Carneval which is keen, buzzy, eager to breathe the rarified air of the Yankee muses. It feels li...

I turned to Austen’s late novel in a bid to go back to a classic after wading through too many contemporary novels that seemed to be saying ...

Ferrara’s biopic offers Dafoe one of his finest roles. This is clutch material for the director, and the film feels assured, confident, but ...

A film about filmmaking. A film about filmmaking when the world is at war. What is the lodestar the filmmaker should follow? A dissertation ...

Dengue Boy belongs to that fin-de-siècle genre, the video game novel. I don’t get to read that many of them, but it reminded me of Pelevin, ...

Cine Universitario has a healthy, youthful turnout on a Friday night. I guess I’m the oldest member of the audience. They seem to drink it a...