Ritwik Ghatak’s Partition Trilogy (Meghe Dhaka Tara [1961], Komal Gandhar [1961] and Subarnarekha [1962] is some of the finest-ever South Asian filmmaking.
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Tackling religion, self-preservation, pandemics, PTSD, and paranoia, A Prayer for the Dying covers a lot of interesting territory in just 90-ish minutes.
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Digger, the latest from uncompromising Mexican auteur Alejandro González Iñárritu, seems purposely designed to frustrate any angle of enjoyment a casual viewer might pursue.
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One might think that having nearly thirty more years of experience as a filmmaker under his belt would lead this remake of Serpent’s Path to feel more refined and perhaps even better than the original. However, while the French version is more polished, it is the angry, messy energy that makes the original film tick.
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This week in Austin screenings 10/2-10/8.
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Anchored by a trio of strong performances from its lead actresses, the film puts a nice spin on the classic Faustian storyline but loses itself while upping the ante to near-ludicrous levels.
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What In a Violent Nature 2 lacks in originality it makes up for in personality. This is a funny, campy, super-violent movie that revels in its practical effects and endless gore.
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Backed by the momentum already building out of Cannes and Sundance, the fall movie lineup looks poised to cap off another stacked year in cinema.
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To watch a Gregg Araki film is to swim in a dream of fully realized sexual liberation and have that dream confront the reality we live in.
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This week in Austin screenings 9/25-10/1.
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Late Fame is a movie made more of good taste than of good artistic instinct—scenes seem to happen because, in this type of movie, that's where this scene tends to go.
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Primetime is a fascinating and fantastical retelling of the making of a show that leaves a queasy feeling in the stomach of so many viewers.
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The debut feature from Matías Vásquez, better known as Stillz, Barrio Triste is a fascinating mix of pungent social realism and brain-frying surrealism.
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As with many other releases in recent years, when I first heard about the sequel to 1998’s Practical Magic, I couldn’t help but wonder… who asked for this?
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This week in Austin screenings 9/18-9/24.
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eXistenZ is weird, unsettling, occasionally hilarious, and visually unforgettable, but beneath its grotesque imagery is a surprisingly thoughtful exploration of gaming, intimacy, and reality.
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A Lizard In a Woman’s Skin (the title comes from a throwaway line delivered by, you guessed it, a drugged-out hippie) is an authentic 1970s giallo, full of lurid imagery and an insolent refusal to have any point beyond base titillation.
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The threesome of Y Tu Mamá También and The Doom Generation defines these films far beyond the actual act itself; we can feel the groundwork being laid, and sit in its reverberance after it takes place.
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This week in Austin screenings 9/11-9/17.
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Rather than pumping out another Spielberg retrospective where forty films are boiled down to a top ten, Hyperreal would like to offer an alternative assembly: attributing a Steven Spielberg film to each of the major American holidays.
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