By Yun-hua Chen. While Cigaal’s coming of age is marked by the loss of his dreams, the surrounding’s seems to be a brutal and irreversible transformation—one driven by machine-led globalization….” “My whole life I try to make things better, but I keep making mistakes,” says Mamargrade (Axmen Cali Faarax), the […]
The Ugliness Beneath Beauty: An Interview with Ruben Östlund on Triangle of Sadness (2022)
By Yun-hua Chen. When historians talk about [the fall of the Roman Empire], it was a very slow process at the end of which Rome is not the center of Europe or the center of the world anymore. Slowly power is shifting and going somewhere else, so the end of […]
Progress and the Forgotten: the Importance of The Saint of Fort Washington (1993)
By Christopher Sharrett. One of the most important films of the 1990s, certainly the best about poverty and the plight of the homeless.” Tim Hunter’s 1993 film The Saint of Fort Washington enjoyed some applause in its day while having a limited release and poor commercial performance. Today, it seems […]