Using an Unreal Game Engine to bold and unsettling effect, Ishan Shukla’s Schirkoa: In Lies We Trust is a truly unique and strange sci-fi vision.
Schirkoa: In Lies We Trust Won’t Be a Hit. It’s Too Unique For That.
Redmond Bacon
Redmond is the editor-in-chief of Journey Into Cinema.
Eternal in Name. Eternal in Nature.
Science-fiction romance Eternal is pretty good for the first twenty minutes. Then it repeats the same point over and over again, to diminishing results.
Samsara, Seeing Without Seeing
Lois Patiño’s Samsara is a truly unique cinematic experience, asking if you can watch a movie without having to actually open your eyes.
Best Festival Films and Hidden Festival Gems 2023
Avoiding consensus for our top 2023 picks, Journey Into Cinema focuses on both the best festival films and the finest hidden gems.
Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 19th Century Russian Novelist
With About Dry Grasses, his latest three-hour-plus study of a superfluous man, Nuri Bilge Ceylan keeps the spirit of classic Russian literature alive.
Life, Assembled. Architecture (Re)-Imagined
Life, Assembled takes you deep into the architectural process, wondering if the progressive Belgian ideals of the 70s are still worth pursuing today.
Going To Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project. As Enjoyable (and as Evasive) as its Subject.
Going To Mars: The NIkki Giovanni Project is a fascinating documentary, but hides a more fascinating character study behind hagiography.
Nam June Paik: Moon Is The Oldest TV. Art Revolution, Televised.
The revolutionary art of the “Godfather of video art” is given a dutiful biopic treatment in Name June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV.
MMXX. Cristi Puiu Revisits his Annus Horribilis Through Lengthy Anthology.
Cristi Puiu’s MMXX revisits the year he whipped up a bunch of coronavirus controversy with a typically austere anthology that lacks the smarts of his best work.
Days of Happiness Plays the Notes, Not the Music
Days of Happiness may offer the antidote to Tár’s toxicity, but it lacks the passion needed to make for a masterful conductor character study.