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Published by Film at Lincoln Center

Imogen Sara Smith

Blues for the Iron Curtain: Cold War and Red Boogie

By Imogen Sara Smith
October 30, 2018
Chill wind blows: Pawel Pawlikowski's latest film shares points of romantic and musical comparison with a film by Karpo Godina

Ghosts and Replicas: Bisbee ’17 and Museo

By Imogen Sara Smith
September 20, 2018
Once more with feeling: one hybrid film and one fiction film look at the reenactment and preservation of contentious pasts

The Liberation: Jacques Becker and Memoir of War

By Imogen Sara Smith
August 28, 2018
Scenes between the scenes: the brilliant French director of Edouard and Caroline and Rendezvous in July deserves a place on par with the New Wave that followed

Beautiful Work: The Female Gaze in Beau Travail, La France, and The Romance of Astrea and Celadon

By Imogen Sara Smith
July 24, 2018
The way I see it: a series on female cinematographers at the Film Society of Lincoln Center invites a closer look at how we look

Hard Traveling: Araby, Gabriel and the Mountain, and Vagabond

By Imogen Sara Smith
June 22, 2018
Miles to go: two clear-eyed new films of people on the move follow in the footsteps of Varda’s story of a drifter

Word Pictures: The Day After, with The Seagull and On Chesil Beach

By Imogen Sara Smith
May 24, 2018
Wrapped up in books: the different levels of narrative and time in a trio of tales about lovelorn men

Cities and Exiles: In the Last Days of the City and Art of the Real x 2

By Imogen Sara Smith
April 24, 2018
No home movie: three films that confront the realities of displaced people in very different situations

Feeling at Home: Our House, Drift, and Western

By Imogen Sara Smith
March 29, 2018
Faces places: two New Directors films and Grisebach’s latest rethink how people relate to the spaces they’re in

In Our Time: Abbas Kiarostami’s 24 Frames

By Imogen Sara Smith
February 6, 2018
Moving stills: Abbas Kiarostami’s final film expresses the beauty of the medium and its status as memento mori