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Features

Heavenly Host

By Max Nelson
July 5, 2016
For more than 50 years, Nathaniel Dorsky has been welcoming viewers into a gracious empire of light

Tough Love: Alan Clarke

By Graham Fuller
June 27, 2016
Revolution, televised: where did the pioneering British director get his Brechtian pyrotechnics?

Critical Care: Dr. Frederick Wiseman

By Matt Morrison
May 13, 2016
A doctor reflects on the views of medical treatment offered in Titicut Follies, Hospital, and Near Death

Dissident Voices: Post-Revolutionary Cuban Cinema

By Alejandro Veciana
May 6, 2016
A road map to the wide-ranging styles of—and official responses to—contemporary Cuban film

The Miracle of Life

By Laura Kern
May 3, 2016
With Evolution, Lucile Hadzihalilovic dives deep into the murky (and dangerous) waters of maturing and achieving self-knowledge

Close to the Bone

By David Fear
April 28, 2016
British director Alan Clarke brought tough love and fearless technique to a breathtaking range of stories

Singing Samurai and Dancing Salarymen

By Marc Walkow
April 4, 2016
Land of 10,000 dances: Japan's unheralded genre, the musical film came in all shapes, sizes, colors, and tones

An Epic of Understanding: John Gianvito’s Wake (Subic)

By Jonathan Rosenbaum
February 2, 2016
Damage report: on the filmmaker's steadfast cinematic scrutiny of U.S. colonialism and its legacy of destruction in the Philippines

Matters of Life and Death: Mike Nichols

By Richard Combs
January 29, 2016
How the director charted the state of things and imagined other possibilities

Flower of Carnage: The Birth of Lady Snowblood

By Marc Walkow
January 26, 2016
The making of a badass: the confluence of talent that created Japanese cinema’s fierce ice queen