The Berlinale 2023 opens with a trip aboard the tugboat of love. There is no need to get on. Here’s our take on Rebecca Miller’s She Came To Me.
She Came to Me. She Didn’t Conquer.
Redmond Bacon
Redmond is the editor-in-chief of Journey Into Cinema.
Descent Into Cinema Podcast: Passages and Queer Panorama Preview
Is Passages a great movie or is it a classic case of Sundance-itis? Ahead of its European premiere at the Berlinale, we look at Ira Sachs’ latest.
Rotterdam 2023: The Three Types of Festival Film
Hybrid docu-fiction, serious European relationship dramas, and a big cross-border social issue drama, characterise a classic Rotterdam 2023 line up.
Edvard Munch Everywhere. All At Once
This daring portrait of the vaunted modernist artist Munch captures the spirit of the artist well by shaking up biopic formula.
Tale of Cinema — Wrong Then, Wrong Now
Life isn’t a movie. But Tale of Cinema shows us all the wonderful things that can happen when the line between the two is blurred.
Poetry and Parenting: Two Lithuanian Films at the Tallinn Film Festival 2022
France to the west, Russia to the east; Lithuania trying to do its thing in the middle. A survey of two Baltic premieres at the Tallinn Film Festival.
Death and Divorce: Two First Features from Tallinn Film Festival 2022
A couple of excellent first features from the Tallinn Film Festival show both physical and mental pain, and the different ways to reconcile the two.
Cottbus Film Festival Day Two: Polentag
A Polish-heavy second day at Cottbus Film Festival shows off both the accessibility and social relevance of their national cinema.
Cottbus Film Festival Day One: A Continent in Collapse
Day one of the Cottbus Film Festival expertly shows the major fault-lines running through the seams of Eastern European society.
Boris Godunov — The Same as It Ever Was
Boris Godunov transports us into a different world, even if Russia itself seems impervious to any kind of meaningful change.