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The Ecstatic Art

By Sheila O'Malley
May 8, 2020
For modernist poet H.D. and her contemporaries at the journal Close Up, the young medium of cinema lit up the room with soul-stirring force

Can Dialectics Break Bricks?

By Devika Girish
May 8, 2020
Colombian filmmaker Camilo Restrepo’s debut feature Los Conductos burns white-hot with the misterioso story of an outlaw at large

Blood on Their Hands: Luis Ospina

By Ela Bittencourt
May 8, 2020
Colombian class warrior Luis Ospina blazed a revolutionary trail through Latin American cinema with subversive genre and documentary works

Enter the Void

By Nicolas Rapold
May 8, 2020
Christopher Harris’s urban landmark still/here expresses the feelings of absence in ravaged St. Louis neighborhoods to create an afterimage of African-American experience

Inside Man

By Nick Pinkerton
May 1, 2020
The pandemic seclusion changes how each of us is touched by movies. Nick Pinkerton reaches out

I Think We’re Alone Now

By Devika Girish
May 1, 2020
With no theater to step into, Devika Girish reflects on the options for connecting with others and with cinema

By Any Means Necessary: Med Hondo

By Aboubakar Sanogo
May 1, 2020
A dazzling voice for Africa and the diaspora, filmmaker Med Hondo threw down fearless, prickly experiments that banish colonial rot

What Could Go Wrong?

By Imogen Sara Smith
May 1, 2020
With the miraculous About Endlessness, the living pictures of Roy Andersson heave a melancholy sigh over the human condition

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