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Features

Lois Weber and The Dumb Girl of Portici

By Daniel Eagan
February 10, 2017
History was silent: a long-overlooked female filmmaker gets her due as a major player thanks to new restorations

Warrior Class: Female Asian Action Heroes

By Marc Walkow
January 27, 2017
Deadlier than the male: a golden harvest of streamable films with fearless women

The Great Divide

By Andrew Chan
January 3, 2017
Pained and painful, I Am Not Your Negro gives new voice to James Baldwin and the double binds of reflecting on race

You Talkin’ to Me?

By Nick Pinkerton
January 3, 2017
Martin Scorsese wrestles with religious belief and philosophical inquiry in Silence, a work of stark cinematic power and moral vulnerability

Big Plans, Small Minds

By Jeff Reichert
January 3, 2017
The rise of Stephen Bannon empowers a brand of echo-chamber culture familiar to documentary

Common Sense

By Amy Taubin
December 26, 2016
American Indie axiom Jim Jarmusch talks about the art of routine in Paterson (and the assembly of chaos in Gimme Danger)

The One Thousand and One Nights of Raúl Ruiz

By Ethan Spigland
December 9, 2016
Freedom of choice: in his exile, the Chilean director's cinema is a phantasmagoria of memory and illusion

On Yasujiro Ozu

By Paul Schrader
November 25, 2016
Films that changed me: the award-winning filmmaker who wrote the book on transcendental style in cinema appreciates the artistry of a Japanese master

Tomu Uchida: Genre Artist

By Marc Walkow
November 9, 2016
Unknown quantity: rediscovering a Japanese director's masterful and subtly critical studio films

Center of Gravity

By Eric Hynes
November 3, 2016
Eric Hynes investigates how Steadicam got inside our heads