D.W. Mault

★★★☆☆ The American writer Henry Miller once said that he hated writing but he loved having written, and it would seem he had a...

★★★★☆ There are a series of events from a country’s recent past that illuminate with the ferocity of a burning church. The perfect storm...

★★★★★ There’s bleak and then there’s Le Jour Se Lève (1939). To celebrate the film’s 75th anniversary, this week sees the release of an...

★★★★★ Cinema is a form that forgets its relative youth at times, for that explanation is what can only be reasoned why Francesco Rosi...

★★★★☆ There’s a certain suspicion about hieroglyphic documentary portraits of individuals of a generational span (the enjoyable Supermensch springs to mind), but The Last...

★★★☆☆ Water both resists and exists. It’s both the giver of life and the destroyer of futures. The Earth is covered by 71% of...

★★★☆☆ Fritz Lang is a behemoth entity who encompasses cinema from the Weimar age to playing a director called ‘Fritz Lang’ in Jean-Luc Godard’s...

★★★★☆ The pursuit of truth is a demand that cannot be fulfilled through seeing alone. An encounter with cinema resides through a locale of...