Double Take: Long Day’s Journey Into Night

Welcome to Double Take, a brand new collaborative writing series from the On The Clock team, in which two or more members of our writing committee review the same film, either with a similar or different opinion, to give the reader multiple stances on the subject being covered. Today’s article is on Long Day’s Journey Into Night, […]

Happy As Lazzaro – Middleburg Film Festival Review

Alice Rohrwacher’s latest, Happy as Lazzaro, is a unique delight that continuously evolves over the course of its 2+ hour runtime. The less you know going in, the more rewarding the experience is, so to avoid spoiling a major turn (though even headlines for other reviews don’t offer the same consideration), I’ll describe the film […]

Sunset – Middleburg Film Festival Review

László Nemes follows up his Oscar-winning film Son of Saul with an equally tense and frenetic drama about a young woman surrounded by oppressive forces. Irisz comes to Budapest initially looking for a job at a hat store, but when the interviewer realizes who she is and tells her to leave, her determination causes catastrophic […]

Film Festival Report: Lost Weekend X

The Lost Weekend is not a typical film festival. Twice a year, host Andy Gyurisin showcases a plethora of independent, foreign, and often undistributed films at the Alamo Drafthouse in Winchester, VA. Patrons travel from across the country and passes (a steal at $35) sell out within hours of being announced. What makes it […]