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Jun 29, 2022 — “It’s less about breaking the rules than just being able to construct new rules,” says the artist and filmmaker.
Jun 28, 2022 — Boasting a larger-than-life Divine, John Waters’ underground classic finds the sublime in the ridiculous.
Jun 28, 2022 — Part rom-com, part existential meditation, the final installment in Joachim Trier’s Oslo trilogy dignifies the fluctuating desires of a woman on the cusp of thirty.
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Jun 23, 2022 — Along with celebrations of Dario Argento and George A. Romero, the season brings a series of more than a hundred nightmares.
Jun 22, 2022 — The long, quietly tense opening minutes of L’eclisse offer a blueprint for filmmakers looking to craft a devastating breakup scene.
Essays
Jun 21, 2022 — By centering an empowered Black hero, Gordon Parks reimagined the detective genre and exposed its racial politics.
Jun 21, 2022 — “The best actors in the world,” he once said, “are those who feel the most and show the least.”
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May 25, 2022 — Park returns to the competition in Cannes with a Hitchcockian murder mystery.
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May 19, 2022 — As Tchaikovsky’s Wife premieres in competition, the Russian director fields questions about cultural boycotts.
May 18, 2022 — Just slightly northwest of Death Valley, in what is now eastern California, a mountain range carves out the eastern edge of the Owens Valley. Sculpted by bedrock pushed between tectonic faults during the late Proterozoic to Cambrian periods, the Inyo...