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News to Me: Rip Torn, Stanley Kubrick, and Alain Guiraudie

Actors & auteurs: Stanley Kubrick, Juliette Binoche, and PTA as a PA
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Film of the Week: Rojo

Disappearing act: thinking you know where you are with Benjamín Naishtat’s latest can lead you up the wrong path
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The Film Comment Podcast: Ari Aster on Midsommar

All in the family: the filmmaker sits down to talk about his latest, one of the summer’s most anticipated movies
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Feeling Seen: Whose Apocalypse Now?

Adrift in history: much of Apocalypse Now portrays Vietnam as a spectacular but soulless backdrop for moral ruminations
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Feeling Seen: Whose Apocalypse Now?

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Adrift in history: much of Apocalypse Now portrays Vietnam as a spectacular but soulless backdrop for moral ruminations

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News to Me: Rip Torn, Stanley Kubrick, and Alain Guiraudie

By Film Comment
Actors & auteurs: Stanley Kubrick, Juliette Binoche, and PTA as a PA