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Many Returns
Back on screens: Uli Edel, Charles Burnett, Jane Austen, Mikio Naruse, and Hiroshi Shimizu.
Remembrances and Returns
Darling and Dogma are back in theaters, and Edmund White is remembered with his great essay on Jean Genet and Jean Cocteau.
Daydreaming
Wes Anderson celebrates Satyajit Ray, Chantal Akerman talks framing, and Callie Hernandez writes about Jonathan Glazer.
More to Come
The week wraps with an overlooked gem starring Jamie Lee Curtis, a new issue of Cineaste, and conversations with Lisa Lu and Takashi Miike.
Love, Chaos, and the Divine
We’re in the mood for Wong Kar Wai, Kira Muratova, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Alan Rudolph, and Dag Johan Haugerud.
Sincerity in Practice
There’s a lot going on besides Cannes: Kira Muratova, Glauber Rocha, Mikio Naruse . . .
Sequences from History
Voices come in pairs this week: Jia Zhangke and Zhao Tao, Daney and Rivette, Patrick Bateman and his fans.
Enduring Hits and Sorry Flops
Audiences carry on flocking to Sinners, but few have seen either version of The Comeback Trail.
Diverging Futures
A busy week brings writing on the LA Rebellion, Jean-Luc Godard, and Elaine May, and a conversation with Pedro Almodóvar.
Frontality and Time
Barry Jenkins interviews Charles Burnett, Céline Sciamma discusses Chantal Akerman—and more.
Time Is Ours to Bend and Break
We’re paging through the new Millennium Film Journal and reading elsewhere about William S. Burroughs, Pauline Kael, and John Ford.
States of Flux
Henry Fonda and Shinji Somai headline a week that also brings new issues of frieze and the Brooklyn Rail.
Mann’s Men and More
The week brings new issues of Film Quarterly and Cineaste and conversations with Michael Mann and Miguel Gomes.
Sound and Vision
Along with conversations with David Cronenberg, Alain Guiraudie, and Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese, the week offers a dossier on “the cinema of the senses.”
Various Transgressions
Spend the weekend with Buñuel, Pasolini, Sarah Maldoror, Todd Solondz, and Pedro Almodóvar.
“How Does Someone Do That?”
We’re spotlighting fine writing on Ben Rivers, Errol Morris, David Lynch, Želimir Žilnik, and Laura Carreira.
Ten Contenders
We’ve gathered some of the best writing on each of the nominees for Best Picture Oscar.
Tough Bridges to Build
This week we’re revisiting work by Zeinabu irene Davis, Chantal Akerman, Claude Lanzmann, Wang Bing, and Joan Micklin Silver.
Inside the Echo
On our minds this week: Chantal Akerman, Ang Lee, and Akira Kurosawa.
After the Revolutions
The week brings fresh appreciations of Sara Gómez, Frederick Wiseman, Andrei Tarkovsky, Vittorio De Sica, and David Lynch.
Spooky and Sexy
As an Australian classic turns fifty, we’re also reading about Leos Carax and Catherine Breillat.
What Comes After
We’re sampling new issues of Notebook, Senses of Cinema, and 032c and reading about Eisenstein and Charlotte Zwerin.
The Donut, Not the Hole
Featured this week are Frank Capra, Michael Roemer, John Ford, Djibril Diop Mambéty, and Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
Artifacts and Moments
This week: Eisenstein’s diaries, Godard’s artworks, Mike Leigh’s characters, and Sidney Poitier’s late work.