Please turn JavaScript on
filmint icon

filmint

Receive updates from Filmint for free, starting right now.

We can deliver them by email, via your phone or you can read them from a personalised news page on follow.it.

This way you won't miss any new article from Filmint. Unsubscribe at any time.

Site title: Film International

Is this your feed? Claim it!

Publisher:  Unclaimed!
Message frequency:  0.21 / day

Message History

By Thomas M. Puhr.

Watching a character look around in bewildered awe as they first encounter the backrooms gets old pretty quick. How many times must we see someone gasp as a part of their body disappears into that basement wall?”

Splotchy, coagulated gray fills the screen. Is this an abstract painting, we wonder, or maybe a desolate ali...


Read full story

A Book Review by John Talbird.

Instead of throwing a heaping helping of film titles at us, substituting lists and anecdote for real analysis, each chapter takes a deep dive into one specific movie, contextualizing the film with the real-world effects of white flight, government abandonment of urban locales, urban renewal destruction, and the vanish...


Read full story

By Ali Moosavi.

I design the concepts and then within those concepts I leave the actors free…. As Béla Tarr has said, with interesting people and interesting locations you can make a good movie. I like to frame interesting people.”

—Mohammad Shirvani

At the 2008 Abu Dhabi Film Festival I watched a documentary called Seven Blind Wo...


Read full story