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Sep 11, 2015 — Laura Poitras has proven to be one of the most daring and necessary voices in contemporary documentary cinema with such works as The Oath and the Oscar-winning Citizenfour. So we’re excited to hear that she, along with her fellow documentarian...

Sep 11, 2015 — Check out designer Peter Stults’s fanciful and inspired “What If” posters, for which he mainly recasts contemporary films with stars from the past.

Sep 9, 2015 — Here’s an enjoyable reminder of what Terry Gilliam does best: a new trailer for Gilliamesque: A Pre-posthumous Memoir. Animated in that old Monty Python style and set to the disturbingly catchy score from Brazil, it’s a nice, quick preview of...

Sep 8, 2015 — Get ready to take notes: the centerpiece of Sight & Sound’s October issue is an annotated list of 100 overlooked films by women. In an article titled “The Female Gaze,” the magazine’s editors write, “We aim to challenge official film...

Sep 2, 2015 — In preparation for our upcoming release of D. A. Pennebaker’s groundbreaking 1967 Bob Dylan documentary Dont Look Back, we recently visited the legendary filmmaker at his home, where he introduced us to an old friend. Photo by Grant Delin That’s...

Sep 2, 2015 — We love it when great novelists write about cinema—they’re often able to capture something ineffable and magical about the form that critics may have come to take for granted. Case in point: the New York Review of Books has posted...

Sep 2, 2015 — The cuddliest of the New American Cinema auteurs of the seventies was born on this day in 1929. Hal Ashby’s output from that decade never loses its ability to astonish; bookended by two of the era’s great social-minded comedies, The...

Sep 1, 2015 — As we pointed out last week, you probably can’t afford to own Bob Dylan’s lyrics, so here’s something a little more reasonably priced: Big Pink, the unassuming suburban house in upstate New York where, following a motorcycle crash in 1966,...

Aug 31, 2015 — “When you’re writing a screenplay, it’s like you’re dreaming the film for yourself again and again and again until it becomes almost like a memory before you make it,” says writer and actor Greta Gerwig in a new interview in...

Aug 28, 2015 — Wes Anderson’s famous style just keeps extending its reach. According to W magazine, a lot of this year’s fall fashions are torn straight from the iconoclastic American director’s stylebook, with designers from Gucci to Bally offering looks reminiscent of The...