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May 1, 2025 — The director of Sambizanga is celebrated with a full retrospective in New York and a free evening of screenings in Los Angeles.
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Sep 13, 2021 — The Los Angeles–based artist behind the covers for our editions of Amarcord and The Awful Truth discusses the evolution of her work.
Jul 7, 2017 — Canadian-born filmmaker Alison Maclean emigrated to New Zealand as a teenager and later attended Elam Art School in Auckland. After making Kitchen Sink (1989), still arguably the most successful short film to come out of New Zealand, and her debut...
Tasha Robinson has been an entertainment and culture writer and editor at the A.V. Club, the Dissolve, the Verge, and Polygon, and has written for NPR, the Chicago Tribune, io9, Vulture, RogerEbert.com, and the Los Angeles Times, among other publications....
Mindy Seu is an artist and technologist. She is an associate professor in the Department of Design Media Arts at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her performances and publications include Cyberfeminism Index (2023) and A Sexual History of the...
Lisa Morton is a screenwriter and author whose books include The Cinema of Tsui Hark (2001), Savage Detours: The Life and Work of Ann Savage (2010), and The Art of the Zombie Movie (2023). Her film writing includes articles about...
Robin D. G. Kelley is a professor of history at the University of California Los Angeles. His books include Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination; Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times; Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times...
Bernardo Rondeau is an independent programmer and writer based in Los Angeles. Previously, he served as senior director of film programs at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures and curator of film programs at the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art.
Jesse Thorn is a podcaster, comedian, and culture critic in Los Angeles. He is the host of the NPR arts and culture program Bullseye and cohost of the comedy shows Jordan, Jesse, Go! and Judge John Hodgman. In 2024, he...
Originally from Mexico City, Carlos Aguilar is a Los Angeles–based film critic and journalist. Aguilar’s work has appeared in publications such as the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Variety, and IndieWire, among others. He is a member of...