By Simon Abrams Nimród Antal may not be an innovative director but he is a canny creator of endearingly sincere B-movies. Vacancy in that sense is an important though not a huge step forward from the clunky sentimentality and cloying cliches of his debut film Kontroll...

Unfortunately, I didn't get a chance to see Jim Sheridan's Brothers this week. But when I was co-hosting the Show Me Your Titles podcast, Cathy and I dedicated a full episode to Danish film-maker Susanne Bier. Bier's tremendous body of...

Hey London, come out and ask Spike questions tomorrow! It’s going to be a blast! Saturday, December 5 Apple Store Filmmaker Q and A 5.15pm – 6.00pm Regent St, London W1 Hosted by Adam Buxton

The appeal of zines, mini-monographs and small books is hard to explain. There’s something about the intimacy and concreteness of a handheld object that can’t be replicated by art that hangs on the wall or books that roll off the presses in editions of ten thousand. Anyone who’s traded zines...

Having been raised in a military family, whenever I watch films about service people I have a list to tick off of irritating improbabilities and blatant failures of fact-checking. It's how I imagine a sports fan feels watching any movie...

Having been raised in a military family, whenever I watch films about service people I have a list to tick off of irritating improbabilities and blatant failures of fact-checking. It's how I imagine a sports fan feels watching any movie...

by Ryland Walker Knight [The Resnais series playing at the PFA this month and next is part of a broader, traveling retrospective with a concurrent run in Chicago at the Gene Siskel Film Center and a proposed stop at the newly renovated Museum of the Moving Image in early 2010.] Parts of...

DOWNLOAD VIA ITUNES | SUBSCRIBE VIA RSS Artist Kimsooja reflects on her series of videotaped performances — A Beggar Woman and A Homeless Woman (both 2000-01) — realized in cities around the world: Cairo, Delhi, Lagos, and Mexico City. Kimsooja’s videos and installations blur the boundaries between aesthetics and transcendent experience through their use of repetitive actions, [...]

We invited artist Noah Fischer to write about his current project, Electrical Forest: Made in Troy, a site-specific installation in Troy, New York.��� — Ed. During my initial research missions to Troy, New York I met a colorful bunch of historians, painters, potters, professors and arborists, and...