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Notes on Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors

By Sergei Parajanov

April 7, 2020

The master filmmaker on the making of his 1965 breakthrough

The Power & the Gory

By Manny Farber & Patricia Patterson

March 3, 2020

In this classic 1976 essay, the two critics take on Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver

Not Buying It

By Michael Koresky

March 2, 2020

As films and film culture face brutal and witless change, love of the art form can be radical and sustaining

Coin of the Realm

By Clinton Krute

March 2, 2020

In Kelly Reichardt’s First Cow, friendship meets commerce in a poignant portrait of two outsiders on the newly settled American frontier

Rise Up!

By Ela Bittencourt

March 2, 2020

Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles’s Brazilian epic Bacurau sets the world on fire with an invigorating and audacious story of resistance that feeds off of pulp and politics

Letter to an Unknown Decade

By Devika Girish

January 21, 2020

Becoming a critic in an era of burgeoning possibility and unsettling futures

The Decade in Experimental Film

By Jordan Cronk

January 14, 2020

Fabric of time: an overview of a tumultuous era of moving image works

Two Views of Robert Altman

By Buck Henry

January 14, 2020

The late writer and actor on 1993’s Short Cuts and improvising Altmanian dialogue

House of the Spirits

By Jordan Cronk

January 6, 2020

Pedro Costa returns with the masterful Vitalina Varela—quite possibly the most beautiful film of 2020

The Termite’s Return

By Dennis Lim

January 6, 2020

Reflecting on an unwieldy decade in film, from the ground up