She and He

Dec 23, 2019 — The latest episode of Observations on Film Art explores the subtleties of framing, lighting, and decor that put an antipatriarchal spin on a traditionally male-dominated genre.

Oct 17, 2019 — Two series offer a wide range of thematic and historical perspectives on the Japanese capital.

Jun 10, 2019 — The new issue focuses on the impact of Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma, women’s film criticism, and Hollywood’s international productions.

May 18, 2019 — Diop’s debut fiction feature is a love story, a detective story, and a ghost story.

Jan 10, 2019 — The February festival’s added eleven films to its competition and another six to the Berlinale Special program.

Sep 4, 2018 — A series at Anthology Film Archives and an archived special feature make for fine companions.

Aug 24, 2018 — Film Studies for Free turns ten, BlacKkKlansman sparks debate—and more.

Jul 19, 2018 — Can art change the world? That’s the question that has propelled writer-director Mira Nair down the various paths she’s taken as an artist, from her early explorations of stage acting and photography to her success with such films as Monsoon...

Jun 7, 2018 — The Ukraine-based filmmaker saw her work lauded and banned.

Apr 20, 2018 — “Although her oeuvre to date is wide-ranging,” writes Melissa Anderson at 4Columns, Claire Denis’s “most celebrated films are those that probe, usually elliptically, the legacy of French colonial rule in Africa, as seen in Chocolat (1988), her semiautobiographical debut feature;...