Ahead of the BAFTAs, Claire White caught up with the director of ‘Babyteeth’ about the imagery of an Australian summer, young love, and depicting teenagers with care and celebration.
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Review: David Byrne’s ‘American Utopia’ is an Electric Ride
Spike Lee’s filmed version of David Byrne’s Broadway show captures a feeling of infectious enthusiasm and energy.
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Review: The Adolescent Panic of ‘Shiva Baby’
Emma Seligman’s debut feature is an affecting examination of the pressures, anxieties and insecurities of young womanhood.
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Review: ‘Hope Gap’ is a Forgettable Addition to the Divorce Movie Genre
An acting dream team of Bill Nighy, Annette Benning and Josh O’Connor can’t save this tiresome familial drama.
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Create the Space You Want to Inhabit: An Interview with Desiree Akhavan
Claire White talks to Desiree Akhavan about The Miseducation of Cameron Post, intimacy in filmmaking, and how being true to your voice can pay off.
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Review: ‘L.A. Tea Time’ Soaks up Life like a Sponge
A pair’s road trip to meet filmmaking hero, Miranda July, turns into a dreamy journey of observation and self-discovery.
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Review: The Beautiful World of ‘Emma.’
Autumn de Wilde’s Austen adaptation is a female fantasy, and it’s all the more better for it.
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‘The Lighthouse’ in Three Parts
Isolation, repression, two bodies, and a lingering stench.
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Yesterday Is Gone: Sondheim in ‘Marriage Story’ and ‘Lady Bird’
The music and lyrics of Stephen Sondheim mean something to both Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig – Claire White figures it out.
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Review: Blinded by the Light
Like its starry-eyed protagonist, Gurinder Chadha’s teen film is far too obsessed with Springsteen for its own good.
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Taking Back the Culture: An Interview with And Then We Danced’s Levan Akin
Claire White speaks to And Then We Danced director Levan Akin about same-sex desire, claiming a traditional culture for your own, and the queering of John Hughes.
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And Then We Danced: A Facebook Chat
Claire White and George Kapaklis reflect on the highlights of a tender, queer love story set in Georgia.
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Review: The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão
The colours, the colours, the colours.
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Review: House of Hummingbird
This languid, slice of life portrait feels like a memory deep inside.
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Review: Animals
Animals plays out like a memory: within the wine-fueled haze of love won, love lost, and uncertainty, you might just find yourself.
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Review: Top End Wedding
An Aboriginal woman’s homecoming to the Tiwi Islands is the romantic comedy that Australia has been missing out on.
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Review: Thunder Road
This off-beat tragicomedy could be retitled “Man on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown”.
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Within and Without: Poetry in Motion and Lee Chang-dong’s Burning
Claire White shares her lasting memories of Lee Chang-dong’s impressionistic mystery.
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Review: Celebration: Yves Saint Laurent
Any celebratory spirit is scarce in this observational documentary centered on enigmatic fashion icon, Yves Saint Laurent.
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Oscars 2019 Round Table: A Group Chat
The Rough Cut team bring to you an unconventional chat ahead of the 2019 Academy Awards, bantering predictions, conflicts as critics, and Oscar campaigns.
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What Moves You: Distance in Kogonada’s Columbus
Claire White looks back at the architecture of human connection in Kogonada’s contemplative 2017 drama.
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Review: On the Basis of Sex
This biopic based on Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s life is not especially deep or complex, but it is empowering comfort food.
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