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Nov 19, 2024 — William Wyler’s adaptation of the Broadway musical celebrates the indomitability of vaudeville legend Fanny Brice, embodied by Barbra Streisand in an incandescent and remarkably vulnerable performance.

Oct 24, 2024 — The director of such classic political docudramas as On the Bowery and Come Back, Africa defied the conventions of nonfiction filmmaking with his innovative approach to collaboration and performance.

Oct 22, 2024 — Lana Wilson is a writer and director whose work includes After Tiller, an Emmy-winning feature documentary about the four most-targeted abortion doctors in America; The Departure, a Spirit Award–nominated feature documentary about a punk-turned-priest who helps suicidal people find reasons...

Oct 8, 2024 — An otherworldly exploration of the realm between life and death, this horror masterpiece transcends its genre with its poetic, often unsettling use of fragmentation and discontinuity.

Sep 24, 2024 — Aaron Schimberg lives in New York. He made two commercially disastrous features, but the second one, Chained for Life, was well received by critics. A Different Man is his third film.

Sep 24, 2024 — A sceenwriter, novelist, and longtime friend of director Todd Solondz recalls the admiration he felt upon first seeing this audacious ensemble drama, which offers an unflinching, compassionate look at the pain and abjection of being human.

Aug 28, 2024 — United by a meditative approach that captures the spiritual bounty of the natural landscape and the tolls of physical labor, this Mexican director’s films challenge stereotypical depictions of his country’s rural communities.

Aug 27, 2024 — A brilliant satire, inspired by a 1973 PBS documentary series that gave rise to the reality-television genre, Albert Brooks’s first feature film examines the ethical dilemmas of combining cheap entertainment and sociological experiment.

Aug 16, 2024 — Jessica Pratt is a guitarist, singer, and songwriter based in Los Angeles, California. Her new album, Here in the Pitch, builds on the spectral folk of her previous albums, landing on a cinematic pop sound gesturing toward the Wrecking Crew,...

Jul 17, 2024 — Lee Grant is an Oscar- and Emmy-winning actor and director. She has starred in Detective Story, The Landlord, Shampoo, In the Heat of the Night, and Valley of the Dolls and has directed many films, including the Oscar-winning Down and...