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Features

Neither Here Nor There

By Imogen Sara Smith
March 1, 2019
Always leaving or being left behind, the refugee protagonists of Christian Petzold's Transit circulate on the tides of war and history

The Point of No Return

By Nick Pinkerton
March 1, 2019
Claire Denis’s volatile High Life bonds sex and death drives through the space voyage of convicts condemned to the void

Higher Learning: The Unwatchable

By W.J.T. Mitchell
February 26, 2019
See no evil: what does it mean to proclaim something “unwatchable,” whether disturbing, revolting, poor quality, tedious, or literally inaccessible?

Triumph of the Will

By J. Hoberman
February 5, 2019
Museum quality: Leni Riefenstahl and the aestheticization of politics

Higher Learning: A Greater Los Angeles

By Laura Isabel Serna and Colin Gunckel
January 14, 2019
New Hollywood: Mexican-born critic and playwright Gabriel Navarro brought together a rich world of uniquely Mexican-American culture in the first decades of the 20th century

Arthur Edeson and the ASC 100th

By Nicolas Rapold
January 8, 2019
Pretty as a picture: celebrating the 100th anniversary of the American Society of Cinematographers with the director of Casablanca (or photos thereof)

Outside the Main Stream

By Michael Koresky
January 2, 2019
The movies we love are ours forever—or are they?

The Future Is Getting Here

By Nicolas Rapold
January 2, 2019
By any standard, American cinema changed course this year

Climbing Higher Mountains

By Andrew Chan
January 2, 2019
Aretha Franklin leaves behind precious memories with the 1972 concert film Amazing Grace, finally released to us all

The Long View

By Dennis Lim
January 2, 2019
A reckoning with Argentine director Mariano Llinás’s marathon movie of the moment, an opus of various tones, genres, and cinematic madeleines