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Features

Interview: Ilya Khrzhanovsky

By Jonathan Romney
March 13, 2019
The mind behind the massively ambitious Dau discusses the mysterious, "pluridisciplinary" project

Ice Age

By Aliza Ma
March 6, 2019
With An Elephant Sitting Still, Hu Bo leaves behind a shattering final testament to China’s postindustrial no-hopers

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

The Point of No Return

By Nick Pinkerton
March 1, 2019
Claire Denis’s volatile High Life bonds sex and death drives through the space voyage of convicts condemned to the void

The Unwatchable

By W.J.T. Mitchell
February 26, 2019
See no evil: what does it mean to proclaim something “unwatchable,” whether disturbing, revolting, poor quality, tedious, or literally inaccessible?

Triumph of the Will

By J. Hoberman
February 5, 2019
Museum quality: Leni Riefenstahl and the aestheticization of politics

A Greater Los Angeles: Gabriel Navarro, Cultural Bridge-Builder

By Laura Isabel Serna and Colin Gunckel
January 14, 2019
New Hollywood: Mexican-born critic and playwright Gabriel Navarro brought together a rich world of uniquely Mexican-American culture in the first decades of the 20th century

Arthur Edeson and the ASC 100th

By Nicolas Rapold
January 8, 2019
Pretty as a picture: celebrating the 100th anniversary of the American Society of Cinematographers with the director of Casablanca (or photos thereof)

Outside the Main Stream

By Michael Koresky
January 2, 2019
The movies we love are ours forever—or are they?

The Future Is Getting Here

By Nicolas Rapold
January 2, 2019
By any standard, American cinema changed course this year