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Features

Notes from the Venice Film Festival

By Edith Laurie
August 27, 2019
Seventy-five films in sixteen days, and the best of them Italian

Interview: Martin Scorsese

By Harlan Jacobson
August 20, 2019
In this 1988 interview, the director provides an exegesis of his passion project, The Last Temptation of Christ

Lost in America: Richard Linklater

By Gavin Smith
August 13, 2019
Revisit two sides of the American nightmare in this 2006 interview with the director of the new Where’d You Go, Bernadette

In the American Grain

By Kent Jones
July 25, 2019
On words, images, and why it’s no longer worth our time to be pitting the two against each other

Cinema With a Roof Over its Head

By Kent Jones
July 16, 2019
In this 1999 essay, Kent Jones makes a case for Hou Hsiao-hsien's “difficult” films of the ’90s

Divided We Fall

By Monica Castillo
July 8, 2019
For Third World Cinema Corporation, surviving as an independent creative force was only one of many challenges

Lonesome Trails

By Nicolas Rapold
July 1, 2019
Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood yearns for the liberating powers of storytelling and finds flickers of life in painted sunsets and broken dreams

Feel the Love

By Shonni Enelow
July 1, 2019
Thirty years after Do the Right Thing, the revolutionary acting legacy of Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee still yields lessons to learn beyond realism

Crossing Over

By Dennis Lim
July 1, 2019
A prize-winning triumph at Cannes, Mati Diop’s Dakar-set debut feature Atlantics confirms an oeuvre of elemental immediacy and dreamlike exile

Notes from Underground: Peter Whitehead

By Henry K. Miller
June 18, 2019
The filmmaker, who passed away last week, wrestled with—and embodied—the contradictions of the ’60s counterculture