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Dec 4, 2006 William Greaves’s masterpiece uses a single situation as the basis for a theme-and-variation structure that interrogates every aspect of the filmmaking process as well as the categories of fiction and documentary.

Anthony Asquith

Short Takes

Apr 10, 2017 Critic Peter Cowie pays tribute to a quintessentially English master, whose prolific career stretches back to the silent era.

Sep 22, 2023 John Waters goes Hollywood, Terence Davies reads a poem, and Marguerite Duras tears it all down.

Feb 18, 2014 The immediacy of an ongoing war electrifies Alfred Hitchcock’s suspenseful second Hollywood feature.

May 4, 2026 L’Alliance New York presents a series of films by a director ripe for discovery in the U.S.

Apr 22, 2020 One of the true dark glories of the Czechoslovak New Wave, The Cremator (Spalovač mrtvol, 1969) is the most popular and indelible work by the underappreciated Juraj Herz and remained a firm favorite of the director’s among his many films....

Feb 27, 2018 “Orson Welles, a boy from Kenosha, Wisconsin, was one of the most audacious Shakespearians who ever lived,” writes Robert Horton. “He recited soliloquies as a child, wrote a book on the plays as a teenager, and at age seventeen roamed...

Apr 9, 2021 Uncovering “The Naked City,” Bruce Goldstein’s scintillating chronicle of The Naked City’s groundbreaking New York location shoot, is more than the best “where-they-filmed-it” doc ever made. As Goldstein wittily traces director Jules Dassin’s Gotham roots and influences, this twenty-three-minute documentary—now...

Jan 11, 2017 A revelatory restoration of Lewis Milestone’s underappreciated newsroom comedy accentuates the film’s punchy rhythms and breakneck banter.

May 12, 2018 An urgent dispatch from the conflict in eastern Ukraine is winning plaudits from critics.

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