Genevieve Yue

Institutional critique: the great director, known for his nonfiction work, dissects married life in his new narrative feature based on the journals of Sophia Tolstoy

Wildlife: the Ohio-based artists discuss how their “Feral Domestic" trilogy questions the porous boundaries between homelife and the outside world

Hands of God: Paul Verhoeven’s latest is an oddly buoyant film that treats its subject—the only nun on record to have a detailed account of sapphic exploits—with sincerity, even reverence

Growing up: M. Night Shyamalan's latest, Old, is a grim, half-baked parable for a world emerging tentatively from a pandemic

(Dominique Dubosc, France, Anthology Film Archives, Opened February 24)

(Tom Ford, U.S., Opening November 18)

Art-world interventionism: the 62nd edition of the venerable shorts festival tackled the question of programming versus curation

The 29th annual Bologna showcase of restorations and preservations spanned divas, war crimes, and marital mix-ups from across the globe

Taking stock: an in-depth look at the alternative routes to processing film in an age of waning options

On the constantly evolving, complicated business of teaching avant-garde film

(Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Japan, 2008)

Bernardo Bertolucci's lone foray into documentary traverses many countries and formal conventions with complex results

Bodily empathy: on the artist's works on paper and celluloid

This Michigan festival's legacy as a showcase and incubator of experimental film talent continues

Being there: reflections on the globe-trotting oeuvre of the director of A Thousand Suns

In the interval: a look at what we're missing when photographic stills are put into sequence, in works by Lucy Raven and Peter Bo Rappmund

Bologna’s annual celebration of restored and re-discovered cinema across the eras once again brings good things to light

Talking through the less inflammatory portions of Nixon's presidency

On Phil Solomon’s “EMPIRE” and Tsai Ming-Liang’s Walker

The avant-garde pioneer speaks about his multi-channel, multimedia work