Dive into the archives.
- Telluride Report, Part 2: “Miserablism”
I have a former boss who hates the word ‘miserablism’ and the way it’s been employed in recent years to denote certain strains of international arthouse cinema that seem mired in The Sadness of the Everyday, blaming the box office failure of a certain Romanian film about a dying alcoholic on the word’s use in [...]
- Telluride Report, Part 1: The Art of Biography
I arrived in Telluride one week ago today, simultaneously dehydrated and needing to pee. The dry mountain air does strange things to a city boy, but I quickly got used to it - this is, after all, the third year that I’ve been to Telluride.
So what’s what for this year at The World’s Greatest Film [...]

