Disappearing act: This year’s recipient of the Chaplin Award is an actress whose nearly superhuman versatility is matched by the consistency of her craft
Taken for a ride: Jenkins’ moving image work artist incisively analyzes how images—in film, TV, advertising, and the media landscape—set limits on the possible.
Run it back: a renewed interest in reenactment in documentary foregrounds two historically sidelined aspects of nonfiction cinema: performance and authorship
Sustain an edge: filmmaker Courtney Stephens reflects on the inspiration, both personal and artistic, she has drawn from Joan Didion’s foundational writing
In my room: while the big-name titles were relatively modest, there was nothing small about more formally expansive films like Dry Ground Burning and Jet Lag
Light touches: this year’s slate was dotted with life-affirming standouts like Claire Denis’s Fire, Mikhaël Hers’s The Passengers of the Night, and more
Fresh perspective: the nonfiction lineup ran the gamut from the exploitative provocation of Jihad Rehab to the genuinely moving uplift of jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy
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