Winner of the Grand Jury prize at Cannes earlier this year, Payal Kapadia’s narrative film debut All We Imagine as Light is foremost a moody poem. Transitioning from documentary filmmaking, Kapadia begins the film with a series of voiceovers from real-life migrant workers living in Mumbai, explaining the ambivalence of…

The newest Oscar bait wannabe, Steve McQueen’s Blitz is a social panorama about lives lived outside the battlefields – weapon factory workers, scavengers, underground socialist movement – following a biracial kid, George (Elliot Heffernan), on a tenuous journey to reunite with his mom (Saoirse Ronan). The movie has a good…

The old guns are coming all out these couple of years. Out of all the cinematic grandmasters who can still conjure themselves to make new films, just this year, we saw the release or festival premieres of Victor Erice’s Close Your Eyes, Godard’s Scénarios, David Cronenberg’s The Shrouds, and Paul…