Making his big screen debut, director and writer Kogonada captures a deeply human story about life and family, carefully framed within the built environment that surrounds it. Columbus, situated in the city of Indiana that shares its name, is as much a story about the unique peculiarities of its Modernist architecture scene as it is […]
Isle of Dogs ★★★★☆ The festival opened with the latest feature from director Wes Anderson, the stop-motion animation Isle of Dogs. The film carries all the director’s usual hallmarks: deadpan humour, hyper-stylised visuals and Bill Murray included. But in some ways the film backs away from some of the more finicky, twee elements of Anderson’s filmography […]
Every second Monday in October, crowds gather for the annual celebration of Columbus Day in the US. While many states, such as Alaska and California, choose to reject this tradition in lieu of an Indigenous People’s Day, the continuing state endorsement for such a day is inherently problematic and should be rendered obsolete. First celebrated […]