Most of us have gazed at the face of the Migrant Mother in Dorothea Lange’s iconic photograph or lingered over the beds, towels, and chairs in houses belonging to tenant ...
Joanna Pocock speaks to iconic US composer and polymath Phillip Corner as he plays at Hackney’s Café Oto.
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On Saturday, Kelly Reichardt’s Certain Women claimed the top prize at the festival awards. It’s entirely deserved, writes Joanna Pocock.
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Frederick Wiseman’s “reality fiction” shows us that when individuals lose out to corporate money and interests, they are forced to give up their sense of belonging, shared histories and hope—the ...
In our society alcohol is socially acceptable, but if you had to take heroin in order to have sex, people would see that as toxic.
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There is a good book to be written about spinsterhood, writes Joanna Pocock, but Kate Bolick’s Spinster isn’t it.
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Joanna Pocock analyses the significance of control in Richard Östlund’s Force Majeure.
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Wandering around Mirror, the Frith Street Gallery’s summer show, Joanna Pocock struggles to make sense of it. On the one hand, it’s about portraiture – but on the other hand, ...
A.K.A. selling off the proverbial bunnies
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A Hard Day’s Night is an explosion of joy onto the bleak, bombed out cultural landscape of post-war Britain.
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Diego Quemada-Diez’s film, The Golden Dream, tells the story of three young Guatemalans attempting to cross the border to the United States.
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Sweden’s Lukas Moodysson taps into the feminine punk-rock spirit of Pussy Riot in his latest film about three teenage girls standing against the adult world
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A gay cruising spot by a lake in southern France becomes the scene for a murder and sexual desire. Alain Guiraudie sensually explores love and lust under a cruel sun.
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In their own ways, David Lynch, William S. Burroughs and Andy Warhol have all encapsulated massive cultural moments in US art and literature. Joanna Pocock reviews a showcase of their ...
The third of Roberto Minervini’s Texas Trilogy, Stop the Pounding Heart is a subtle, fragmented piece about rural Christian America
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The futility of political activism – Kelly Reichardt delivers a compelling movie about a difficult subject, a group of eco-activists who commit an extreme act for a noble cause
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Charming, funny and humane – Andrew Bujalski continues the mumblecore tradition with a film about the members of a chess tournament, set in the 1980s
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Paul-Julien Robert’s documentary of his return to Friedrichshof, Otto Muehl’s free-loving commune, where Robert grew up with his mother
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James Franco adapts the ‘unfilmable’ William Faulkner modern classic for the big screen
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Although Paul Dano delivers a committed performance in For Ellen, his character is not quite believable. The rock-and-roller image – with chipped black nail polish, slicked back hair and leather ...
