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Jun 22, 2018 — Cinephiles converge in Bologna for nine days of discovery and conversation.
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Jun 21, 2018 — The American philosopher was an early proponent of cinema as a subject worthy of serious study.
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Jun 20, 2018 — A Motion Selfie is a wryly comic silent film made by a crew of one.
Essays
Jun 17, 2018 — The stakes are high. An unknown entertainer newly arrived in a foreign country prepares for her first performance, under pressure to make a hit with a restless, rowdy audience. It is a hot night; the crowd exudes a collective humidity,...
Jun 17, 2018 — “The music for A Woman Under the Influence is basically about love,” says Bo Harwood, the longtime collaborator of John Cassavetes’s who composed that film’s score. “It’s about loving somebody, loving your family, loving them no matter what.” This purity of emotion...
Sneak Peeks
Jun 15, 2018 — Coming up at the turn of the seventies, Philippine filmmaker Lino Brocka made a name for himself directing nine studio movies—many of them melodramas and romances that proved popular with local critics and audiences—in the span of just two years....
Jun 13, 2018 — Over seven films, Dorsky explores the changing light of four seasons.
Jun 11, 2018 — Alexander Payne will direct the story that originally appeared in the New Yorker in 2013.
Jun 8, 2018 — San Francisco’s festival of experimental film prompts a new taxonomy from Michael Sicinski.
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Jun 7, 2018 — The Ukraine-based filmmaker saw her work lauded and banned.