M. Faust highlights Cultivate Cinema Circle’s screening of Charles Burnett’s Killer of Sheep at Hallwalls (alongside mention of Bless Their Little Hearts) in the print edition of The Public‘s July 12th-July 18th, 2017 issue!
"I’ll never forget first seeing Lucrecia Martel’s La Ciénaga at the New York Film Festival in 2001. It was one of the most assured first features I’d ever seen, a complex, atmosphere-drenched portrait of a middle-class family barely hanging on during a torpid summer. The film marked the emergence of a fully formed artistic sensibility, and remains one of this century’s defining films." - Dennis Lim, Film Society of Lincoln Center ... See MoreSee Less
"As Lucrecia Martel demonstrates in La Ciénaga (The Swamp), there is more twisted banal horror and caustic humour to be discovered in the forms of personal narrative than found within the boundaries of the horror genre itself." - Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, Senses of Cinema... See MoreSee Less
As Lucrecia Martel demonstrates in La Ciénaga (The Swamp), there is more twisted banal horror and caustic humour to be discovered in the forms of personal narrative than found within the boundaries of the horror genre itself. La Ciénaga is a horror film in a way, though it is as inscrutable as the...
#Buffalo has a ton of new films making their way here this weekend, but the obvious standout for me is Lynne Ramsey's You Were Never Really Here. It's been six years since WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN, but her fourth film has finally arrived with the kind of buzz that anticipates the possibility of it becoming an all-timer. See it for yourselves at Regal Cinemas Transit & Galleria.