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May 20, 2019 — Professor David Bordwell unpacks the sophisticated design of Kenji Mizoguchi’s final masterpiece.
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May 18, 2019 — Diop’s debut fiction feature is a love story, a detective story, and a ghost story.
May 16, 2019 — All week long, writers have been reminding us that there was more to Doris Day than sweet sunshine.
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May 14, 2019 — The seventy-second edition will present new work by some of the world’s most renowned filmmakers.
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May 13, 2019 — Whether he was adapting Lillian Hellman or Stan Lee, Sargent excelled at locating the human heart beating at the center of the story.
May 13, 2019 — One Scene The Piano Teacher is one of my favorite films, and a rare novelistic adaptation that doesn’t suffer from comparison with its source material. This is especially impressive given how good a source it has: Elfriede Jelinek’s 1983 novel...
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May 10, 2019 — 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.
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May 10, 2019 — The latest updates from Cannes, the Berlinale, Il Cinema Ritrovato, and beyond.
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May 3, 2019 — 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.
Features
May 2, 2019 — “To begin with, Gone with the Wind is a woman’s story . . . Mr. Cukor, one of Hollywood’s finest directors and the man who has directed Hepburn and Garbo in some of their best, is known as a woman’s...