Features

How to save a theater: members of the La Clef Revival collective share key insights from their successful campaign to reopen their beloved Parisian cinema

Collective horizons: a new series at Anthology Film Archives showcases the multifaceted work of Palestinian filmmakers and sisters Emily and Annemarie Jacir

Radical specters: the cinema has found a rich repository of inspiration, images, and ideas in the life and work of the anti-colonial writer and revolutionary

Screen time: incarcerated writer Sara Kielly offers a snapshot of a weekend’s worth of movie-watching at New York State’s Bedford Hills Correctional Facility

Righteous outlaw: The Goldman Case is a brilliant example of a courtroom drama that eschews familiar tropes, placing an individual subject into the context of a larger, historical subject in scrupulously open-ended fashion

Behind closed doors: a new exhibition by Albert Serra at Amsterdam’s Eye Filmmuseum, based on the director’s 2019 feature Liberté, revels in Serra’s career-long interest in what happens at night

Island time: from the vacation antics of Adieu Philippine to the subtly anti-colonial comedy of The Castaways of Turtle Island Jacques Rozier’s films offer a crucial meditation on the possibilities and limitations of killing time

Hook or crook: directors Davy Chou and Martika Ramirez Escobar discuss their relationships with piracy and alternative distribution circuits in Cambodia and the Philippines

Look both ways: three new publications of Chris Marker’s texts expand our understanding of him as a multimodal artist, as attentive to the formal qualities of cinema as to matters of prose, graphic design, and civic issues

Born to film: in their openness and DIY approach, Danny Lyon's films resist the streamlined, polished professionalism that The Bikeriders movie adaptation epitomizes