Contributor
Carlos Valladares

Carlos Valladares is a writer, critic and PhD student in the departments of art history and film at Yale University, New Haven, USA.

Opinion
Revisiting Shirley Clarke’s Forgotten Harlem Classic

The director’s 1963 film, ‘The Cool World’, is a unique misstep in her lauded career

BY Carlos Valladares |
Film , Opinion
Hypnotic Doing and Attentive Pausing: Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s New Film Is a Pared-Down Eco-Thriller

‘Evil Does Not Exist’ is a complex exploration of sensations that indulges in the withheld and sublimely ambiguous

BY Carlos Valladares |
Books , Opinion
Clarice Lispector’s Vortex of Meaning

A new translation of the writer’s rarest novel The Apple in the Dark is a revelation

BY Carlos Valladares |
Film , Interviews
Kelly Reichardt and Hong Chau on Art, Inspiration and Ursula Le Guin

For the release of ’Showing Up’, Carlos Valladares speaks to the director and actor about how their new film reframes the idea of working artists

BY Carlos Valladares, Kelly Reichardt AND Hong Chau |
Film , Opinion
The Manic-Depressive Thrills of ‘Babylon’

In Damien Chazelle’s newest film, the altar of Hollywood crumbles under the weight of its own spectacle

BY Carlos Valladares |
Film , Opinion
The Flat Decadence of David Cronenberg’s ‘Crimes of the Future’

The director’s return to the body horror genre exposes crimes of the heart

BY Carlos Valladares |
Film , Opinion , Reviews
The Twisted Dreamscape of Leos Carax’s ‘Annette’

The surreal rock opera, which opened this year’s Cannes Film Festival, is a gritty musical examining sex, power and family relations under intense glare of fame

BY Carlos Valladares |