Reverse Shot

14/11/2020

It was recently announced that the new streaming channel Quibi, dedicated to short-form content, would shut down for good in December 2020. While Quibi was initially conceived of as a way to share interactive, out-of-the box storytelling, Chloe Lizotte, in her new essay, offers suggestions for challenging, provocative, and engaging short-form and interactive storytelling that was already right under our noses.

Looking past traditional cinema into avenues of visual media and other light-related phenomena across the online landscapeâ

01/11/2020

Our annual feature A Few Great Pumpkins offers up seven nights of frights from Michael Koresky on Kiyoshi Kurosawa's PULSE to Julien Allen on THE DEVIL AND DANIEL WEBSTER.

Museum of the Moving Image presents Reverse Shot: a different angle on moving images—past, present, and future

25/10/2020

This week, the Reverse Shot team is joined by Museum of the Moving Image’s Curator of Film Eric Hynes and Assistant Curator of Film Edo Choi, and Vox film cr...

20/10/2020

Today's RS newsletter tackles October movie-watching, including drive-ins, and the annual series "A Few Great Pumpkins." Read here:

Any longtime follower of Reverse Shot knows that we take October movie-watching seriously. Since 2006, it’s been our tradition to provide a week’s worth of season-appropriate suggestions, with accompanying essays. In honor of the perennial Halloween TV special that has haunted us for decades, we...

09/10/2020

As the New York Film Festival heads into its final weekend, catch up with RS reviews of films including:
● Demi Kampakis on NOMADLAND
● Bedatri Choudhury on MLK/FBI
● Lawrence Garcia on THE LAST CITY and THE LOBBY
● Max Carpenter on NIGHT OF THE KINGS
● Nicholas Russell on Steve McQueen's "Small Axe" trilogy
and more!

Read them all on http://reverseshot.org/

Museum of the Moving Image presents Reverse Shot: a different angle on moving images—past, present, and future

28/09/2020

Surprised and thrilled to see Alissa Wilkinson include FEAST OF THE EPIPHANY in her Vox piece highlighting food in films, alongside such titles as First Cow and Babette's Feast! Note that FEAST is still streaming via Museum of the Moving Image's Virtual Cinema.

A feast of comedies, dramas, documentaries, and more to stream at home.

25/09/2020

Catch up with Kirsten Johnson on the Reverse Shot Happy Hour. She joined us last Wednesday to talk about her new film Dick Johnson Is Dead, which debuts on Netflix next week. https://youtu.be/HLtyZXXLtvg

And, just announced: The Queens Drive-In and Netflix will present a FREE double feature of DICK JOHNSON IS DEAD and CAMERAPERSON on Oct. 17! Reserve here bit.ly/307clIF

This week, the Reverse Shot team is joined by Kirsten Johnson, director of “Cameraperson” and the new film “Dick Johnson Is Dead,” which debuts on Netflix ne...

19/09/2020

Our annual New York Film Festival coverage begins with Cristi Puiu's formidable MALMKROG. There's a lot to wrestle with here, and it's well worth the effort. Review by Daniel Witkin.

The actors interpret their often dense monologues with an admirable naturalness and, perhaps more importantly, truly work to convey the act of listening. In many ways, the work of Puiu in guiding the actors through the genuinely demanding material is a more impressive achievement than the heightened...

18/09/2020

In this week's Connected column, critics Bedatri D. Choudhury and Justin Stewart unite Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar's new documentary 9to5 - The Story of a Movement and Richard Linklater's highly underappreciated 2007 drama Fast Food Nation. Together, the films speak to still-relevant issues around workers' rights and create a fascinating dialogue between two writers.

Read here: bit.ly/3hD9mxu

In Connected, one writer will send another a new piece of writing about a film they have been watching and pondering over, in the hopes that this will prompt a connectionâ

15/09/2020

Have you joined us for a Reverse Shot Happy Hour yet? Tomorrow may be the day! This week's special guests are Andrew Chan, web editor at The Criterion Collection, and Aliza Ma, head programmer at Metrograph! The talk will be about musicals.

Wednesday, Sep. 16, 5:00 p.m. EDT. RSVP here: bit.ly/2FCH6O4

09/09/2020

Yesterday's Reverse Shot newsletter covers today's RS Happy Hour featuring a discussion about "Feel-Bad Feel-Good" Movies, new reviews of SYBIL and TESLA, plus the recent Connected column in which Simran Hans and Vikram Murthi exchange words over SEXY BEAST and OLD JOY. Read it here: bit.ly/2GNFGkJ

05/09/2020

In this week's CONNECTED, Simran Hans and Vikram Murthi find momentary solace—if not true escape—in the worlds of confounded men trying to get away from it all. In an unlikely pair, SEXY BEAST meets OLD JOY.

Amidst isolation and precautionary measures, this week's paired-up writers find momentary solaceâ

30/08/2020

For the past few months, we've been gathering weekly for a Happy Hour with our contributors and invited guests. Join us for the next one, this Wednesday, September 2, when critic and RS contributor Adam Nayman, author of the forthcoming Paul Thomas Anderson: Masterworks, will be on. Find out more and RSVP here: bit.ly/2QDTAHE

Catch up with the recorded conversations on the Museum of the Moving Image YouTube page: bit.ly/2AEClS2

28/08/2020

Want more RS? Sign up for our new biweekly newsletter! In addition to round-ups of writing and the latest news on our Happy Hour events, we'll sound off in special sections for subscribers only. Check out this week's inaugural newsletter and sign up here: https://mailchi.mp/movingimage.us/introducing-the-reverse-shot-newsletter-42630

Introducing the Reverse Shot Newsletter: Women's Doc Collectives, Conner O'Malley, Hump Day Happy Hour, and much more!

22/10/2018

FEAST OF THE EPIPHANY will screen 11/4 at 5PM as part of the terrific Virginia Film Festival. Co-directors Michael Koresky and Jeff Reichert will be on hand to answer questions after. Third co-director Farihah Zaman will be there in spirit.

Next stop for FEAST OF THE EPIPHANY: the great, great Virginia Film Festival in Charlottesville. We screen Sunday, November 4th at 5PM. Michael and Jeff will be there for a Q&A.

http://virginiafilmfestival.org/films/feast-of-the-epiphany/

19/09/2018

Welcome the 15th year of Reverse Shot! Where did the time go?

Meet fifteen terrific new filmmakers from across the globe.

For our 15th anniversary, 15 fantastic filmmakers who have made less than five films each.

23/06/2018

Today's the day! Feast of the Epiphany will have its at 4:30PM at BAMcinématek. Some tickets still available here: https://www.bam.org/film/2018/feast-of-the-epiphany

“In an independent film scene that too often evinces a paucity of imagination, FEAST OF THE EPIPHANY displays a refreshingly protean ambition... What’s achieved is a delicate interplay between constituent, subtly connected parts which don’t fuse together so much as vibrate in expectation, creating generative flashes of recognition in the process. Dig deeper. You don’t know what you may find.” —In Review Online

20/06/2018

Three days until FEAST OF THE EPIPHANY premieres at BAMCinemaFest 2018, followed by a Q&A with directors Michael Koresky, Jeff Reichert & Farihah Zaman.

Get tickets now: http://bit.ly/BAMcinemaFeast

14/06/2018

Don't miss the first feature to bear the Reverse Shot logo: FEAST OF THE EPIPHANY! Directed by Michael Koresky, Jeff Reichert and Farihah Zaman. Produced by Caitlin Mae Burke. World Premiere 6/23 at BAM Film's 10th annual cinemaFest.

16/03/2018

"BLACK PANTHER is an unsettling experience. A sexy and entertaining blockbuster, the third feature by Coogler following CREED and FRUITVALE STATION is also a sad and perverse object. Its provocative ambiguity reveals itself only gradually."

Fanta Sylla digs into BLACK PANTHER.

http://reverseshot.org/reviews/entry/2430/black_panther

10/03/2018

Our review of A WRINKLE IN TIME comes courtesy of Kelley D**g:

"Fraught by a scattered plot and jolting camerawork, A WRINKLE IN TIME suffers from the double-edged sword that is DuVernay’s affect-oriented sensitivity, a keenness that, in this instance, operates as an Achilles heel."

http://reverseshot.org/reviews/entry/2429/wrinkle_in_time

22/02/2018

Mark Asch finds the latest film from Clint Eastwood to be "a movie in which real life and movie life interact in ways that are frequently awkward, frequently touching, and always singular." Read his review of THE 15:17 TO PARIS.

http://reverseshot.org/reviews/entry/2424/1517_to_paris

17/01/2018

We're putting 2017 to bed and giving our readers our yearly...TWO CENTS. Featuring:

Best Supporting Actress, Best Monologue, Worst Supporting Gay, Most Tonally Strange, Best Age-Inappropriate Romance, Paul Giamatti Award for Overacting, Best Bookends, and much, much more...

http://reverseshot.org/features/2416/two_cents_2017

11/01/2018

Our coverage of First Look 2018 at Museum of the Moving Image continues with new pieces on RAILWAY SLEEPERS and LET THE SUMMER NEVER COME AGAIN.

http://reverseshot.org/series/13/at-the-museum

08/01/2018

Who's offended? We are! Welcome to Reverse Shot's 11 Offenses of 2017, AKA most of last night's Golden Globe winners.

http://reverseshot.org/features/2411/11_offenses_2017

06/01/2018

Check out our ongoing coverage of First Look 2018 at Museum of the Moving Image. New reviews of GHOST HUNTING, COMMUNION, VAZANTE and COLO. All screening this weekend!

http://reverseshot.org/series/13/at-the-museum

05/01/2018

Eric Hynes reviews the THE LAST JEDI.

"'It’s time to let old things die.'

Yes it is, I thought."

http://reverseshot.org/reviews/entry/2403/star_wars_last_jedi

05/01/2018

Our coverage of First Look 2018 at Museum of the Moving Image begins with Jordan Cronk on Blake Williams's PROTOTYPE:

"Blake Williams has achieved a holistic union of his own that speaks at once to the transformative power of the moving image and the oceanic force of its full deployment."

http://reverseshot.org/features/2401/first_look_prototype

04/01/2018

Our review of THE POST is hot off the presses.

01/01/2018

One list to rule them all...the 2017 Reverse Shot Top Ten!

Our writers voted for: "A frank and complex gay love story, an exciting breakthrough from an important new female filmmaker, a fleet drama about young people in over their heads committing violence, an exhilarating story about the precariousness of childhood performed by a vital cast of young newcomers, a brilliantly conceived tale from a cinematic whiz-kid taking place in three discrete space-times. But no, we’re not talking about CALL ME BY YOUR NAME, LADY BIRD, GOOD TIME, THE FLORIDA PROJECT, or DUNKIRK..."

Featuring: Michael Koresky, Jeff Reichert, Emma Piper-Burket, Nick Pinkerton, Julien Allen, Chloe Lizotte, Ashley Clark, Imogen Smith and Matt Connolly and Chris Wisniewski.

http://reverseshot.org/features/2400/best_2017

28/12/2017

Chris Wisniewski is typically great on P.T. Anderson's deranged and hilarious PHANTOM THREAD:

http://reverseshot.org/reviews/entry/2399/phantom_thread

15/12/2017

Mayukh Sen reviews the new documentary SOUFRA, about a group of women in Lebanon attempting to start the first refugee owned and operated food truck.

http://reverseshot.org/reviews/entry/2397/soufra

04/12/2017

Azadeh Jafari closes out our IN TIME symposium with a look at a 35-minute section from Ebrahim Golestan's BRICK AND MIRROR:

http://reverseshot.org/symposiums/entry/2396/brick_mirror