Tag: slowcinema

Friday One Sheet: MAGELLAN

The majestic ode to the age of exploration and sail show in today's key art belies the revisionist historical film from slow cinema maestro Lav Diaz. With its hazy sunrise and high grain, and jaunty tilt (note the waterline, and...

NO SLEEP TILL Review: The Acute Pleasures of a Tone Poem

Opening with the most tranquil of public swimming pools, a few swimmers go about their routine under the blazing hot sun in stark contrast to the attention-grabbing, but mechanically disjointed, text-to-speech of the National Weather Service warning broadcast blaring from...

Calgary Underground 2025 Review: EEPHUS, Where Baseball Contains Multitudes

Eephus, Carson Lund’s wonderful ode to small stakes baseball and gruff Americana, needs its odd title explained: The Eephus pitch is a throw that is so unnaturally slow that it confuses the batter. It makes him swing too early, or...

Friday One Sheet: CHOROKBAM

Is the man smoking a cigarette while his ride waits, or is he about to be hit by a moving vehicle? This festival poster, designed by the director of the film, Yoon Seo-jin, for the Busan International Film Festival, captures...