Features

At sea: Matías Piñeiro’s Isabella is a puzzle-like meditation on entering middle-age, admitting defeat, and beginning anew

Get weird: Leos Carax’s Annette is a deep dive into the irreducible strangeness of the musical form

End of the road: Our final overview of the fest that was touches on Memoria, Red Rocket, Nitram, and more

Time regained: a revelatory exhibition pulls together a series of performances and film work from the multi-talented artist Bill Gunn

Magic kingdom: Zola is an effortlessly funny and dark fable of a Black woman seeking escape from life’s monotony

Primal screen therapy: during the COVID-era, television series provided a coherent purposefulness that was otherwise missing from everyday life

Out of the past: Merle Oberon endures in public memory because of the secrets she had to hide, but her work deserves reassessment

Hidden pattern: Yue discusses her book Girl Head: Feminism and Film Materiality, which explores the material erasure of women in cinema

In the drink: Undine reenergizes the recursive motifs of Christian Petzold's oeuvre while also sharpening his longstanding interest in history and capitalism

From our our May-June 2006 issue, the late-lamented actor's personal take on the actor-director relationship