Unchained: Ramesh Sippy’s swashbuckling 1975 epic mashes together tropes from westerns, dacoit films, silent comedies, and musicals to create an entirely unique cult classic
Simultaneous dimensions: three films at this year’s NYFF made by or about Palestinians pry open apertures from which we must make sense of Gaza’s horizon as intimately tied to our own
Prison films: Phillip Vance Smith, II reflects on how movies like Life, Penitentiary, and Sing Sing portray life behind bars, and how his own experience of watching them has changed over his years of incarceration
War report: intimate and epic, My Undesirable Friends: Part One follows a small cohort of oppositional journalists in Putin’s Russia during the run-up to the military invasion of Ukraine
Charged as guilty: Roman Polanski‘s J'accuse, which dramatizes the infamous Dreyfus Affair, premiered to great acclaim in France—but soon led to further allegations of sexual abuse by the director
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