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Mar 5, 2024 — Friends and admirers pay tribute to his rigorous scholarship, his boundless enthusiasm, and his warm generosity.
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Jul 9, 2021 — One of the most irreverent and boisterously funny voices in American underground cinema has died at eighty-five.
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Jul 6, 2021 — The fourth of Andrei Tarkovsky’s seven features is his most oneiric and resistant to interpretation, drawing from the director’s own childhood memories to create a fluid sense of history.
Jun 16, 2021 — For the cover image of our edition of Hou Hsiao-hsien’s opulent masterpiece, the award-winning illustrator combined traditional Chinese figure-drawing styles with a distinctly modern approach to color and composition.
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Aug 11, 2020 — The Complete Films of Agnès Varda It’s the other famous shot in The Gleaners and I (2000) of Agnès Varda’s reaching hands. Not the one she said was taught around the world as the heart of her documentary-making, where, in...
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Aug 12, 2019 — This month we’re looking at titles by or about Chantal Akerman, Orson Welles, Chris Marker, Kathleen Collins, and many more filmmakers and writers.
Sep 26, 2018 — The completion of the project Welles began in the 1970s is one of the major cinematic events of the year.
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Aug 30, 2018 — World premieres, the best of the fests, and half a dozen classics selected by guest director Jonathan Lethem.
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Aug 22, 2018 — Festivals from New York to London, from Busan to San Sebastián, are finalizing their lineups.