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Inspired

Personal Hell

By Janicza Bravo
May 8, 2020
In Janicza Bravo’s hyper-vivid Zola, a woman joins an unpredictable new friend on a road trip into chaos and violence

Inspired: Feast of the Epiphany

By Michael Koresky
November 27, 2019
Table manners: the inspirations behind the sumptuous documentary-fiction hybrid from Koresky, Jeff Reichert, and Farihah Zaman

Killing for a Living

By Rodrigo Prieto
September 27, 2019
The cinematographer of Martin Scorsese’s much-anticipated The Irishman evokes the passing of eras for a dedicated, deadly workingman

Surface Funk: On Manny Farber

By Kelly Reichardt
April 17, 2019
Burrowing in: the director of Certain Women reflects on the abiding influence of Farber's writing and “termite art”

To Each Her Own

By Kent Jones
March 29, 2019
Kent Jones shows his fidelity to evoking the weather-beaten reality of living in his dramatic debut feature, Diane

Inspired: The Spoken Word

By Barry Jenkins
November 1, 2018
The adaptation of If Beale Street Could Talk is guided by James Baldwin’s ever living writing