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In Memoriam
Screen Time: Takahiko Iimura (1937-2022)
By
Julian Ross
September 12, 2022
Light work: the Japanese filmmaker’s tireless curiosity allowed him ever new and different angles from which to tackle questions about the singularity of each cinematic moment
Richard Rush and
The Stunt Man
By
Michael Sragow
June 28, 2021
Man on wire: no director ever lived up to his last name better than Rush did in the Peter O’Toole-starring
The Stunt Man
Monte Hellman’s
Two-Lane Blacktop
By
Sheila O'Malley
May 10, 2021
One for the road: a tribute to the late director and his minimalist, elliptical masterpiece
Blood on Their Hands: Luis Ospina
By
Ela Bittencourt
May 8, 2020
Colombian class warrior Luis Ospina blazed a revolutionary trail through Latin American cinema with subversive genre and documentary works
In Memoriam: Stuart Gordon
By
Chris Shields
April 1, 2020
From beyond: the director of
Re-Animator
leaves behind a varied and endlessly imaginative body of work
The Strength of Street Knowledge
By
Craigh Barboza
September 13, 2019
Pioneering filmmaker John Singleton captured the humanity and horrors of the modern urban world
Clear as Sunshine
By
Nick Pinkerton
July 15, 2019
Beyond the pristine persona, Doris Day excelled as a realist
In Memoriam: Agnès Varda
By
Kelley Conway
May 1, 2019
With deceptively casual genius, Agnès Varda journeyed deep into the truth of experience
Anarchic Visions: Djibril Diop Mambéty
By
Robert Sklar
April 30, 2019
Laughter and tears: An appreciation of the late Senegalese master, whose 1992
Hyenas
was re-released April 26
Bruno Ganz, Mischievous Angel
By
José Teodoro
February 27, 2019
Watching over: Ganz often devoted the bulk of his energy to listening, captivating us with his attention
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