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Festivals: Wavelengths at TIFF

Furiously alive: the Toronto festival’s experimental film section featured Roberto Minervini, Helen Wittmann, Jodie Mack, and more to energizing effect
Read Nellie Killian's dispatch

NYFF Interview: Ali Abbasi

Self-discovery: the Cannes-laureled director crafts a surprising portrait of an unusual customs inspector using fantasy and thriller elements
Read Nicolas Rapold's interview

The Film Comment Podcast: Ethan Hawke

Heart of the country: the actor-director-writer in conversation with Nick Pinkerton at our latest Free Talk at the Film Society of Lincoln Center
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Deep Focus: The Sisters Brothers

Wild frontiers: Jacques Audiard goes West with John C. Reilly and Joaquin Phoenix and brings back gold
Read Michael Sragow’s column

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News to Me: Jerry Lewis’s “Home Movies,” Kasi Lemmons, Annette Michelson

By Carlos Valladares
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Film of the Week: Mandy

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Interview: Bai Xue

By Aliza Ma
Love and theft: a breathtaking debut feature by a Chinese filmmaker follows a teenage girl down the road of corruption

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Queer & Now & Then: 1960

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Homme fatale: the surpassing beauty of Alain Delon in Purple Noon is a lethal weapon that the actor wields without mercy

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The Film Comment Podcast: Ethan Hawke

By Nicolas Rapold
Heart of the country: the actor-director-writer in conversation with Nick Pinkerton at our latest Free Talk at the Film Society of Lincoln Center

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Intimations of Mortality

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Monrovia, Indiana, Frederick Wiseman’s postcard from the Midwest, detects the lengthening shadows beyond the all-American sunshine

Imogen Sara Smith

Ghosts and Replicas: Bisbee ’17 and Museo

By Imogen Sara Smith
Once more with feeling: one hybrid film and one fiction film look at the reenactment and preservation of contentious pasts

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TCM Diary: The Wild Boys of Wellman

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The long way home: William A. Wellman shows his mettle with the young hobo heroes of Wild Boys of the Road

Festivals

Festivals: Wavelengths at TIFF

By Nellie Killian
Furiously alive: the Toronto festival’s experimental film section featured Roberto Minervini, Helen Wittmann, Jodie Mack, and more to energizing effect