Michael Blair

Boss less: Scott Cooper‘s Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere can't find a sincere way of imagining the everyday process of making music

Locally sourced: this year’s edition of the True/False Film Festival was a haven for principled cinephilia, with highlights including Hu Sanshou’s Resurrection and Francesca Scalisi’s Valentina and the MUOSters

Close reading: Matías Piñeiro’s You Burn Me and Jem Cohen's Little, Big, and Far are both richly attuned to the surfaces of things

Spiritual unity: the recently released soundtrack pulls from avant-garde jazz and traditional Persian music to create a new audio work just as madcap, ambiguous, and avant-garde as the original film was, almost 50 years ago