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“Balancing the Bitterness with Sweetness”
A fresh reading of Dr. Caligari, a deep dive into War and Peace, Terry Zwigoff’s “immersive screenings,” and Beyoncé’s multimedia project are among this week’s highlights.
Trains of Light and Sound
Lucrecia Martel, Annette Michelson, Satyajit Ray, and Joanna Hogg feature in this week’s round.
Other Arts, Other Worlds
This week we revisit the work of the late critic Gilberto Perez, novelist W. G. Sebald, and filmmakers Alice Guy Blaché, Wong Kar-wai, and Agnès Varda.
Cléo from 2013 to 2019
This week, a feminist journal folds, a filmmaker pens a manifesto, and Richard Linklater commits to a twenty-year project.
Movies to Listen to
A good number of the pieces that have stood out this week examine the ways that music and cinema have informed each other’s traditions.
Stories of Their Lives
Look back with us on the winding career of Arthur Jafa, a summer spent with Tilda Swinton, and an evening with soccer “super-fan” Agnès Varda.
Moods and Memes
This week we’re revisiting the work of Ida Lupino, Nicholas Cage, Juraj Herz, Spike Jonze, and more.
“This Is Peachy Keen!”
Extraordinarily long movies, challenging movies, and even ugly movies figure into this week’s round.
Do Look Back
This week’s round features conversations with Abbas Kiarostami, Christopher Doyle, Julia Loktev, and Barry Jenkins.
Personas, Conspiracies, and Outright Horror
Who did Agnès Varda want us to believe she was? Why has the idea that Stanley Kubrick faked the moon landing caught on? And Roger Corman, feminist hero?
From Mann to Moullet
This week: Michael Mann, Peter Strickland, Pedro Almodóvar, Luc Moullet, and a forgotten chapter of film history.
Ages of Rebellion
This week, we look back on the making of If...., black filmmakers in the 1990s, and the golden age of Mexican cinema.
New Cinema Scope and Old Polaroids
This week’s highlights include an oral history of one of Kubrick’s most challenging sequences and reviews of the latest works from Béla Tarr and Paul Thomas Anderson.
The Big Questions
Can the movies survive? Can rotten people be great artists? Are we all doomed?
A Panorama of Politics
On the late Peter Whitehead, Jordan Peele’s Us, drag culture, European refugees, and images of incarceration
Tours and Sighs
This week we revisit the work of Pawel Pawlikowski, Carlos Reygadas, Robert Mitchum, Hal Hartley, and Elaine May.
Literary Influences
Chinese poets and American and English novelists figure prominently in this week’s round.
The Struggle Never Ends
In the spotlight this week: Barbara Rubin, Chantal Akerman, Kenji Mizoguchi, Dominik Graf, and Tomás Gutiérrez Alea.
“The Only Sane Person on Rumble Fish”
In the news this week: Francis Ford Coppola, Raúl Ruiz, Joanna Hogg, and Lou Ye.
Surveys and Milestones
This week has seen surveys of the careers of Abbas Kiarostami and screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière and deep dives into milestone works by George Cukor and Andrei Tarkovsky.
What Actually Goes On in the Movies
BAM’s Black 90s series, Nina Menkes, a poet, Avengers, and a list of the top films of the 2010s are among this week’s highlights.
Journals and Revivals
New issues of Screening the Past and cléo are out this week, and new restorations are opening in New York.
From Canyon Cinema to Outer Space
In the spotlight this week: A new resource on avant-garde cinema, Kent Jones on Francis Ford Coppola, Darren Hughes on Claire Denis, and more.
Perspectives on Half a Century
This week sees further remembrances of Agnès Varda, reflections on Godard then and now, and appreciations of a vital but too often overlooked filmmaker, Nelly Kaplan.