Nancy Zastudil interviews acclaimed director Blackhorse Lowe, how David Lynch found his late style with "Lost Highway," and reviews of "Both Sides of the Blade," "Elvis," and more.
Film & Documentary “I’m focused on contemporary Native American stories, the modern-day ups and downs of that lifestyle, but I’m not trying to do it in a traditional manner,” the award-winning filmmaker told Hyperallergic in an interview. | Nancy Zastudil “All of my themes kind of come from my earliest teachings and understandings of story, which come from the Navajo creation story. So I try to apply it to what’s going on now but with a more modern, darker sensibility,” he said. “I’m always more interested in the people who have to go through the spiritual struggles, just trying to find a way out of darker places and into the light.” Become a Member PIVOTAL DIRECTORS A 4K restoration of the film offers a new chance to untangle its uneasily ambiguous, highly bifurcated plot. | Cole Kronman A new box set of four of the Iranian director’s features offers a great opportunity to get to know his singular style. | Forrest Cardamenis RESURGENCES & REMAKES Ignored and undistributed upon its debut in 1982, in the decades since, the film Losing Ground has slowly gained the recognition it deserves. | Jourdain Searles Stuffed with references to historical and contemporary film, Olivier Assayas’s miniseries version of his own 1996 film Irma Vep is sometimes too clever for its own good. | Dan Schindel LATEST FEATURES Baz Luhrmann’s film Elvis and Danny Boyle’s miniseries Pistol are both overly fixated on the influence their respective musicians’ managers had on them. | Jake Cole Fans of director Claire Denis should check the film out, but as an agnostic, I find it one of her few truly awful pictures. | Sam Bodrojan Croatian filmmaker Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović’s debut feature accurately captures a certain kind of Balkan machismo. | Manuela Lazic |
