For Sight & Sound’s Winter 2022-23 issue, I reviewed Lynch/Oz, a compilation of six video essays directed by Alexandre O. Philippe, and narrated by the likes of John Waters, David Lowery and Amy Nicholson.
It examines the links between The Wizard of Oz (1937) and the works of David Lynch, and is particularly interesting on the dreamlike weirdness of Americana – whether heartening or terrifying.
Reality and fantasy blur for two isolated suburban teens who bond over a mysterious, Buffy-esque 1990s TV show in trans director Jane Schoenbrun’s fantastically inventive second feature…
BFI Flare 2024 includes two powerful features about trans experiences of family life, Close To You and Crossing…
Andrew Haigh’s deeply affecting, time-slipping feature centres on a middle-aged gay writer grappling with the profound consequences of grief and structural homophobia…
Ira Sachs’s drama, starring Franz Rogowski, Ben Whishaw and Adèle Exarchopolous, explores three characters’ jostling wants and needs…
