Hold fast: the Guadeloupean-French filmmaker, currently the focus of a major retrospective at MoMA, never compromised on her ideological and artistic commitments
For your consideration: Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s new Apple TV series The Studio sets out to lampoon executive-class know-nothings at a major Hollywood production company, but does its satire actually pack a punch?
Phantom pictures: the Singaporean filmmaker reflects on how the urban landscapes and communities depicted in his 2018 feature A Land Imagined have since disappeared due to relentless industrial redevelopment
Long journey: Sarah Friedland‘s debut feature Familiar Touch—the Opening Night selection of this year’s New Directors/New Films Festival—is the rare film about aging that bypasses the lurid and the exploitative
Bite our style: Rungano Nyoni’s On Becoming a Guinea Fowl explores everything from the tragicomedy of survival to the Black feminist refusals of Missy Elliott
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