Published by Film Society of Lincoln Center

Features

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

American Friends

By Dan Sullivan
January 4, 2016
A group of playfully iconoclastic collaborators fool around with the essential laws of attraction

Into the Woods

By David Fear
January 4, 2016
Alejandro G. Iñárritu demonstrates the virtues of doing things the hard way with The Revenant

Adaptation: Patricia Highsmith

By Jackson Arn
November 25, 2015
Through the keyhole: considering the sidelong stories of the writer whose novels became Carol and Strangers on a Train

The Infernal, Ecstatic Desire Machine of Guy Maddin

By Jonathan Romney
September 3, 2015
Too much is just right in The Forbidden Room, the movie-mad filmmaker’s latest feat of phantasmagorical cinema

Interview: Satyajit Ray

By James Blue
April 16, 2015
An excerpt from a 1968 interview with the director of the Apu Trilogy

Pleasures of the Flesh

By David Thompson
April 2, 2015
The erotic oeuvre of Walerian Borowczyk, animator, art-house auteur, and painterly smut peddler