Archive - Shadows and Dreams

All that heaven allows

The great American independent director Rob Tregenza talks about his art, life and his excellent new film, The Fishing Place

Mar 7 •

Patrick Z. McGavin

February 2025

The Power and the Damned, or the reckoning

Brady Corbet's third feature builds toward a moment of shocking violence. What does it mean?

Feb 14 •

Patrick Z. McGavin

Bigger than life

Brady Corbet's The Brutalist Is a Visionary, Divisive Epic—And That's the Point

Feb 10 •

Patrick Z. McGavin

January 2025

"Dreaming, but awake," or the beautiful and the damned

Some personal thoughts and memories about the work and art of David Lynch (1946-2025)

Jan 23 •

Patrick Z. McGavin

November 2024

Women on the verge

Some great actresses give heart, depth and shading in filling out the poetic grandeur of Jacques Audiard's new musical crime thriller

Nov 21, 2024 •

Patrick Z. McGavin

Crime and punishment

Ludicrous as storytelling, Clint Eastwood's Juror #2 is rich in themes and ideas

Nov 1, 2024 •

Patrick Z. McGavin

March 2024

Stranger than paradise

A Joycean conversation with the great writer and director Radu Jude

Mar 21, 2024 •

Patrick Z. McGavin

February 2024

'The only way we fail is if we don’t make art'

A Sundance conversation with editor Ron Patane about reframing autobiographical art

Feb 28, 2024 •

Patrick Z. McGavin

Images, or the man in the gray suit

On movie modernism, adaptation, and coming to terms with a great director's work of dread and cultural occupation

Feb 23, 2024 •

Patrick Z. McGavin

'I find really sad things funny'

A conversation with actor and writer Laura Chinn about her directing debut, Suncoast

Feb 9, 2024 •

Patrick Z. McGavin

Memory and time

More from Sundance, the known and newly discovered, the best and brightest

Feb 2, 2024 •

Patrick Z. McGavin

January 2024

Notes from the new underground

Memories of the Sundance Film festival, past, present and future

Jan 31, 2024 •

Patrick Z. McGavin

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