Features

On words, images, and why it’s no longer worth our time to be pitting the two against each other

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

For Third World Cinema Corporation, surviving as an independent creative force was only one of many challenges

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

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

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

The filmmaker, who passed away last week, wrestled with—and embodied—the contradictions of the ’60s counterculture

A "new" film by Orson Welles makes its American debut

Ermanno Olmi, the subject of a complete retrospective opening June 14 at Film at Lincoln Center, is one of cinema’s great spiritual artists

Cheerfully on point, workplace comedy Late Night plays out complex issues with the easy candor of its star, Mindy Kaling