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In the Moment: Too Late to Die Young and The Wandering Soap Opera

By Imogen Sara Smith
May 30, 2019
Youth and revolt: two Chilean films approach memory and politics from different perspectives

Ghost Dance: The White Crow and Nureyev

By Imogen Sara Smith
April 29, 2019
Bird on a wire: the life of legendary dancer Rudolf Nureyev might have been written for the screen

Magic Touch: The Eyes of Orson Welles and The Mystery of Picasso

By Imogen Sara Smith
March 14, 2019
Looking and seeing: two films about genius, perception, and visual communication

Tunnel Vision: The Hidden City and City Symphonies

By Imogen Sara Smith
February 5, 2019
Celebrating the kino-eye: The Hidden City, screening in Film Comment Selects, is part of a tradition extending to the beginnings of cinema

Waste Lands: Sunset and A Fortunate Man

By Imogen Sara Smith
February 1, 2019
Bright lights, big city: Two films explode, in very different ways, an age-old narrative trope

Capturing Chaos: Capernaum and the Children of Neorealism

By Imogen Sara Smith
December 24, 2018
Street scenes: where does Nadine Labaki's new film about two bereft children fit into the legacy of Neorealism?

Loving Memory: After Life and Shoplifters

By Imogen Sara Smith
November 26, 2018
The comforts of home: Hirokazu Kore-eda's Shoplifters and After Life bring out the fond detail of daily life

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