Elena Lazic

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Reviews

This is Me…Now: A Love Story: a musical extravaganza fuelled by fairytales, metaphors, and obsessions

Jennifer Lopez’s wild 65-minute musical is packed with clashing tones and styles that result in a delirious display of imagination.

By Elena Lazic

This is Me…Now: A Love Story: a musical extravaganza fuelled by fairytales, metaphors, and obsessions

Features

Beyond the memes: Werner Herzog and The Ecstatic Truth exhibition

By Elena Lazic

Beyond the memes: Werner Herzog and The Ecstatic Truth exhibition

Reviews

Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story: as heartbreaking as it is chilling

By Elena Lazic

Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story: as heartbreaking as it is chilling

Where to begin

Where to begin with Claire Denis

By Elena Lazic

Where to begin with Claire Denis

Reviews

Her Way: dispassionate portrait of a sex worker

By Elena Lazic

Her Way: dispassionate portrait of a sex worker

10 great

10 great home invasion films

By Elena Lazic

10 great home invasion films

Reviews

Dos Estaciones presents a gorgeous portrait of a headstrong tequila factory boss

By Elena Lazic

Dos Estaciones presents a gorgeous portrait of a headstrong tequila factory boss

Features

Rediscovery: Simone Barbès ou la Vertu

By Elena Lazic

Rediscovery: Simone Barbès ou la Vertu

Reviews

Anne at 13,000 ft follows a troubled protagonist in free fall

By Elena Lazic

Anne at 13,000 ft follows a troubled protagonist in free fall

Festivals

Paris, 13th District drains the colour from its French neighbourhood

By Elena Lazic

Paris, 13th District drains the colour from its French neighbourhood

Festivals

Bergman Island looks at a filmmaking couple’s creative processes through a glass darkly

By Elena Lazic

Bergman Island looks at a filmmaking couple’s creative processes through a glass darkly

Festivals

Everything Went Fine finds François Ozon at his most tender

By Elena Lazic

Everything Went Fine finds François Ozon at his most tender

Where to begin

Where to begin with Louis Malle

By Elena Lazic

Where to begin with Louis Malle

Interviews

Ladj Ly on Les Misérables: “Film is a tool. It changes things.”

By Elena Lazic

Ladj Ly on Les Misérables: “Film is a tool. It changes things.”

Interviews

Walkabout – Half a century on, Luc Roeg remembers the outback shoot

By Elena Lazic

Walkabout – Half a century on, Luc Roeg remembers the outback shoot

Features

In praise of Comes a Horseman, Alan J. Pakula’s neglected western

By Elena Lazic

In praise of Comes a Horseman, Alan J. Pakula’s neglected western

Reviews

True History of the Kelly Gang first look: a proudly unstable portrait of the Australian outlaw

By Elena Lazic

True History of the Kelly Gang first look: a proudly unstable portrait of the Australian outlaw

Lists

The best musical of every year – from the dawn of sound to the rise of the jukebox musical

By Grace Barber-Plentie, Kambole Campbell and others

The best musical of every year – from the dawn of sound to the rise of the jukebox musical

Reviews

Instinct review: a woman’s dark fantasy of male validation

By Elena Lazic

Instinct review: a woman’s dark fantasy of male validation

Features

Mindhunter: American psychos

By Elena Lazic

Mindhunter: American psychos

Lists

90 great films of the 1990s

By Peter Hill, David Jenkins and others

90 great films of the 1990s

Features

Strange days of 1999: Hollywood’s millennial anxieties

By Elena Lazic

Strange days of 1999: Hollywood’s millennial anxieties

Interviews

No Fear, No Die: an interview with Claire Denis

By Elena Lazic

No Fear, No Die: an interview with Claire Denis

Where to begin

Where to begin with Keanu Reeves

By Elena Lazic

Where to begin with Keanu Reeves

Features

A Clockwork Orange and fashion: why the droogs never go out of style

By Elena Lazic

A Clockwork Orange and fashion: why the droogs never go out of style

Where to begin

Where to begin with Gaspar Noé

By Elena Lazic

Where to begin with Gaspar Noé

Reviews

Sauvage first look: a young man’s wild quest for love

By Elena Lazic

Sauvage first look: a young man’s wild quest for love