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Kent Jones

Review: Computer Chess

By Kent Jones
July 8, 2013
(Andrew Bujalski, U.S., 2013)

Old and in the Way

By Kent Jones
July 1, 2013
The past is dramatically present in Claude Lanzmann’s monumental new film

Review: The Bling Ring

By Kent Jones
April 28, 2013
(Sofia Coppola, U.S., 2013)

Home Movies: The Treasure of the Golden Condor

By Kent Jones
January 3, 2013
Archive Pick

Review: Promised Land

By Kent Jones
December 28, 2012
Gus Van Sant's anti-fracking tale keenly observes small-town life

↔ (Part Six)

By Kent Jones
October 26, 2012
Examining the "endless pushing and pulling between the artist and art, which always aspires to the condition of nature."

Seeing the World: An Interview with Richard Peña

By Kent Jones
September 13, 2012
How Richard Peña transformed The New York Film Festival without changing it

Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master

By Kent Jones
September 10, 2012
In The Master, Paul Thomas Anderson tells a big American story about two men who can't see past each other

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By Kent Jones
August 1, 2012
Wiazemsky, Godard, Apichatpong, and modernity

Interview: Benoît Jacquot

By Kent Jones
July 17, 2012
The filmmaker reveals the mystery of Farewell, My Queen and the pocket dictionary he used to cheat on his exams

Review: A Burning Hot Summer

By Kent Jones
July 5, 2012
(Philippe Garrel, France, 2011)

Hail the Conquering Hero: Andrew Sarris

By Kent Jones
June 21, 2012
Kent Jones re-examines the 50-year career of Andrew Sarris, the man who brought auteurism to America

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By Kent Jones
June 18, 2012
Kent Jones's response to B. Kite's video essay about Robert Bresson

Review: Bernie

By Kent Jones
April 26, 2012
Kent Jones on Richard Linklater's choral take on small-town Texas foul play

Light Years: Kent Jones on The Tree of Life

By Kent Jones
December 15, 2011
From our July/August issue: Terrence Malick returns to the landscape of his childhood and sees all the way to eternity in The Tree of Life.

First Look: Sleepy Time Gal

By Kent Jones
June 17, 2011
Kent Jones previews a new film by independent filmmaker Christopher Münch starring Jacqueline Bisset and Seymour Cassel

Robert Bresson: An Introduction

By Kent Jones
June 16, 2011

A serene middle-aged man sits down at what is apparently a rolltop desk. Around him, shallow darkness, and the arms and torso of an assistant standing by his side. The man pulls up the rolltop (the sound of wood…

Frank Borzage

By Kent Jones
June 9, 2011
The sanctum sanctorum of love

Spike Lee

By Kent Jones
June 9, 2011
The Invisible Man

Of Love and the City

By Kent Jones
June 6, 2011
Perpetually in the vanguard of world cinema, Wong Kar-wai reinvents and reenergizes his aesthetic with each new picture. With In the Mood for Love, his latest variation on a cherished theme, he delves into a universe of understated passions restrained by decorum.