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Imogen Sara Smith
Unsolved Mysteries
By
Imogen Sara Smith
October 24, 2022
Parallel lines: Park Chan-wook’s epic detective story
Decision to Leave
is the most overtly romantic entry in Park’s often blood-soaked filmography
Married to Cinema: The Films of Kinuyo Tanaka
By
Imogen Sara Smith
March 21, 2022
Woman’s work: the remarkable work of the Japanese actress-turned-auteur gets its due with a retrospective at Film at Lincoln Center
Some Desolate Shade
By
Imogen Sara Smith
January 18, 2022
Fair is foul: Joel Coen's stark, stylized
The Tragedy of Macbeth
is an unmistakeably Coen-esque and eerily timely distillation of the Scottish play
Waking Life
By
Imogen Sara Smith
October 18, 2021
Time’s arrow: in Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s
Memoria
, the past is alien, layered with trauma and the beauty of the unknowable
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The Village Detective: A Song Cycle
By
Imogen Sara Smith
September 28, 2021
Look again: In his latest film, Bill Morrison constructs a meditation on mortality, Soviet history, the search for lost things, and the persistence of accordions
What Could Go Wrong?
By
Imogen Sara Smith
May 1, 2020
With the miraculous
About Endlessness
, the living pictures of Roy Andersson heave a melancholy sigh over the human condition
Phantom Light: First Cow and Beyond
By
Imogen Sara Smith
March 26, 2020
Range life: Kelly Reichardt’s latest shares themes of nature and capitalism with Bernd Shoch’s new documentary
Olanda
Noir City International
By
Imogen Sara Smith
February 27, 2020
Night on Earth: this year’s edition of the traveling festival focuses on international films from the classic noir era
Phantom Light: To Save and Project
By
Imogen Sara Smith
January 30, 2020
Return engagement: MoMA’s annual series uncovers the remarkable films of Louis Valray along with a classic of Thai cinema
Phantom Light: Portrait of a Lady on Fire and Little Women
By
Imogen Sara Smith
December 23, 2019
Sisters and lovers: two new movies dwell on the emotional bonds between women, and on the choice—or lack thereof—of life paths offered to them
Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project, Shooting the Mafia, and The Irishman
By
Imogen Sara Smith
November 26, 2019
Saving time: two new documentaries dwell on the compulsion to record as a means of staving off the relentless passage of time
Phantom Light: “Shitamachi: Tales of Downtown Tokyo” and Parasite
By
Imogen Sara Smith
October 31, 2019
The lower depths: a series of gritty Japanese films at Film Forum shares themes of class and longing with Bong Joon-ho’s thriller
Unquiet Spirits: Atlantics, Vitalina Varela, and Martin Eden
By
Imogen Sara Smith
September 30, 2019
On three strikingly beautiful films at NYFF57: Mati Diop’s
Atlantics
, Pedro Costa’s
Vitalina Varela
, and Pietro Marcello’s
Martin Eden
Bearing Witness: The Load and Depth Two
By
Imogen Sara Smith
August 29, 2019
On the road: two films by Ognjen Glavonic explore the same grim events through documentary and narrative fiction
Mothers and Daughters: Honeyland and For Sama
By
Imogen Sara Smith
July 24, 2019
Standing witness: two new documentaries find moments of hard-won beauty in difficult times
Labor of Love: In the Aisles, Il Posto, and The Last Black Man in San Francisco
By
Imogen Sara Smith
June 18, 2019
Work and play: three films find beauty in the everyday lives of characters struggling to adapt to the modern world
In the Moment: Too Late to Die Young and The Wandering Soap Opera
By
Imogen Sara Smith
May 30, 2019
Youth and revolt: two Chilean films approach memory and politics from different perspectives
Ghost Dance: The White Crow and Nureyev
By
Imogen Sara Smith
April 29, 2019
Bird on a wire: the life of legendary dancer Rudolf Nureyev might have been written for the screen
Magic Touch: The Eyes of Orson Welles and The Mystery of Picasso
By
Imogen Sara Smith
March 14, 2019
Looking and seeing: two films about genius, perception, and visual communication
Neither Here Nor There
By
Imogen Sara Smith
March 1, 2019
Always leaving or being left behind, the refugee protagonists of Christian Petzold's
Transit
circulate on the tides of war and history
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