Clinton Krute

Front lines: the directors of the 1979 documentary on the Industrial Workers of the World discuss the film’s new restoration and its continuing relevance

Dang me: Alan Rudolph’s 1984 country-music comedy is a rough-and-rowdy good time, punctuated by a typically unhinged performance from Rip Torn

Approximately infinite universe: Yoko's spectral presence in Peter Jackson's Beatles doc is a reminder of the of the persistence and influence of the avant-garde

Running on empty: with an unbelievable cast and a healthy dose of paranoid politics, it’s a shame that this 1984 action flick isn’t better known

Living rough: the veneer of vérité realism in this new-to-streaming collection of short docs gives way to something far more unplaceable

Group effort: critics Chloe Lizotte and Ela Bittencourt join to discuss highlights from this year's lineup, including The Tsugua Diaries, Haruhara-san’s Recorder, and more

Faultlines: William Klein’s revealing portrait of the 1981 French Open is alternately sprawling and incisive

Time was: this raw, no-frills concert documentary leaves a slightly bitter aftertaste, not entirely unlike the vague regret of a Sunday morning coming down

Virtual insanity: programmers Abby Sun and Steve Macfarlane join to talk about the increasingly ill-defined boundaries of the repertory film world

Smoke gets in your eyes: the critic and scholar joins to discuss her new book about Benning’s 2004 film

Bridge over troubled water: Hong Sangsoo’s second movie employs a bravura narrative structure that elucidates the solipsistic lives of its protagonists

Pocket symphony: a 1978 documentary about Don Cherry captures the working life of an artist who never stopped moving

Altered states: listen to our new playlist inspired by Ahmed El Maanouni's rapturous Moroccan concert doc

Streaming performances leverage laptop-lensed shot to create a sense of shared space

Spark a fire: listen to our new mix inspired by the Brazilian film’s radical approach to genre

Best buds: Phoebe Chen and Clinton Krute join to discuss Reichardt’s deceptively modest epic of the American frontier

In Kelly Reichardt’s First Cow, friendship meets commerce in a poignant portrait of two outsiders on the newly settled American frontier

Folkstreams is gold mine of music documentaries, ethnographic films, and educational movies with little-to-no commercial appeal

By blending the very serious with the childlike, Heller’s film locates real feeling in what could easily have been a run-of-the-mill tearjerker

Revisit this 1988 essay on the undiscovered art of Indian cinema’s maverick, whose films are currently screening at Film at Lincoln Center