Isabel Sandoval

MOONGLOW. World premiere: Rotterdam International Film Festival, Big Screen Competition. Feb 2026. A noir melodrama set in 1970s Manila.

Isabel Sandoval (@Isabelvsandoval) returns with “Moonglow,” an audacious neonoir that is poised to disregard genre conventions and follow its own yearning heart, much like Sandoval herself. Read more from the print excerpt here. #RollingStonePH #RSPH rollingstonephilippines.com/editors-picks/…

MoMI’s First Look Festival Sets ‘Silent Friend,’ ‘Carousel,’ and Isabel Sandoval’s New Film ‘Moonglow’ indiewire.com/news/festivals…

The official trailer for Blue Heron, by @janusfilms 💙 youtube.com/watch?v=JeWg8w…

We're thrilled to announce the lineup and screening schedule for #NDNF55! Co-presented by @FilmLinc and @MoMAFilm, this year's festival, taking place April 8-19 across both venues, showcases 24 features and 10 shorts. Learn about this year's selections: filmlinc.org/new-directors-…

We're once again be celebrating Lunar New Year with two recent films from the world of Asian cinema! Monday 2/16 at Williamsburg, Isabel Sandoval’s Brooklyn set LINGUA FRANCA. Tuesday 2/17 at Prospect Park, the Thai coming of age drama HOW TO MAKE MILLIONS BEFORE GRANDMA DIES.

To be done with the sex-scene nonsense: 1. The worst sex scenes are the ones that are there on the belief that they're necessary to the plot; I call them forensic sex scenes, whose sole purpose is to inform viewers that the characters had sex with each other (or one another)...

✨Lav Diaz’s Closet Picks!✨

MAGELLAN, starring @GaelGarciaB sails into theaters today!

Read our interview with Lav Diaz about his "acid trip" version of MAGELLAN, poking holes in mythmaking, working with Gael García Bernal, and more. tinyurl.com/nhd6e6zf

Have always recoiled at calling Tarr or Hou or Tsai ‘slow’, like yeah compared to Hollywood stuff they are certainly less frenetic but there’s always something happening with the camera, the lighting, the gesture of the human body in the frame. Just gotta look with your eyes.

Manila, 1979. Brocka. Coppola. Scott. MOONGLOW.

My final Directed By Women Viewing Guide of the year features 70 new releases (and restorations) that I have recommended throughout the year that you can now watch on streaming or rent, just in case you missed them. Read: oldfilmsflicker.substack.com/p/i-feel-like-…

“That scream that is ecstasy and agony all together. That was a feeling we were searching for.” I interviewed THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE’s Mona Fastvold about faith, trauma, hunger, thirst, communal languages of movement, and cinema’s intense spirituality: rogerebert.com/interviews/tes…

Just wait.

30. Moonglow (Isabel Sandoval) 29. Dune: Part Three (Denis Villeneuve; Dec. 18) 28. What Can’t Be Mentioned (Dan Sallitt) 27. Zero K (Michael Almereyda) 26. The History of Concrete (John Wilson) 25. Jack of Spades (Joel Coen) 24. La libertad doble (Lisandro Alonso) 23. The Odyssey (Christopher Nolan; July 17) 22. at the middle of life (Hong Sangsoo) 21. Untitled Frank Ocean Film

Marty Supreme is a whirlwind of ferocious passion, fanatical energy, and wild-eyed optimism, and the entire cast—stars and newcomers alike—shares in its wondrous expressive fury: newyorker.com/magazine/2025/…

Festival/Oscar bait films are safe art, they provoke just enough to make you feel smart w/o actually challenging anything, discomfort measured to not scare voters, institutional cinema designed by committee while real lunatics were out there making movies that could end careers

Happy Peter Hujar's Day! December 18th 1974 is the day recounted.

Watch the official clip of “Hunger & Thirst” performed by Amanda Seyfried. A new original song from Mona Fastvold’s THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE. Music & lyrics by Academy Award® Winner Daniel Blumberg. See the film in 70MM. Only in select theaters Christmas. #TheTestamentofAnnLee