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Genevieve Yue

Heavens!

By Genevieve Yue
October 4, 2021
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

Forced Retirement

By Genevieve Yue
August 2, 2021
Growing up: M. Night Shyamalan's latest, Old, is a grim, half-baked parable for a world emerging tentatively from a pandemic

Short Take: Paraguay 
Remembered

By Genevieve Yue
March 3, 2017
(Dominique Dubosc, France, Anthology Film Archives, Opened February 24)

Short Take: Nocturnal Animals

By Genevieve Yue
November 3, 2016
(Tom Ford, U.S., Opening November 18)

Festivals: Oberhausen

By Genevieve Yue
June 7, 2016
Art-world interventionism: the 62nd edition of the venerable shorts festival tackled the question of programming versus curation

Festivals: Il Cinema Ritrovato

By Genevieve Yue
July 21, 2015
The 29th annual Bologna showcase of restorations and preservations spanned divas, war crimes, and marital mix-ups from across the globe

Kitchen Sink Cinema: Artist-Run Film Laboratories

By Genevieve Yue
March 30, 2015
Taking stock: an in-depth look at the alternative routes to processing film in an age of waning options

Living Cinema: Experimental Film and the Academy

By Genevieve Yue
November 24, 2014
On the constantly evolving, complicated business of teaching avant-garde film

Review: Tokyo Sonata

By Genevieve Yue
October 7, 2014
(Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Japan, 2008)

Rep Diary: The Path of Oil

By Genevieve Yue
September 19, 2014
Bernardo Bertolucci's lone foray into documentary traverses many countries and formal conventions with complex results

Rep Diary: Len Lye

By Genevieve Yue
June 2, 2014
Bodily empathy: on the artist's works on paper and celluloid

Festivals: Ann Arbor

By Genevieve Yue
May 6, 2014
This Michigan festival's legacy as a showcase and incubator of experimental film talent continues

Art of the Real: The Films of Mati Diop

By Genevieve Yue
April 18, 2014
Being there: reflections on the globe-trotting oeuvre of the director of A Thousand Suns

Rep Diary: Motion(less) Pictures

By Genevieve Yue
March 14, 2014
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

Festivals: Il Cinema Ritrovato

By Genevieve Yue
July 19, 2013
Bologna’s annual celebration of restored and re-discovered cinema across the eras once again brings good things to light

Our Nixon Outtakes

By Genevieve Yue
March 7, 2013
Talking through the less inflammatory portions of Nixon's presidency

Views from the Avant-Garde: Invisible Cities

By Genevieve Yue
October 17, 2012
On Phil Solomon’s “EMPIRE” and Tsai Ming-Liang’s Walker

Loose Ends: An Interview with Tony Conrad

By Genevieve Yue
October 11, 2012
The avant-garde pioneer speaks about his multi-channel, multimedia work

Clocks for Seeing: Christian Marclay’s The Clock

By Genevieve Yue
July 19, 2012
Our intrepid correspondent goes in search of lost time on a (nearly) 24-hour tour of cinema

Review: I Killed My Mother

By Genevieve Yue
May 15, 2011
(Xavier Dolan, Canada, 2009)