Sleight of hand: the recipient of Film at Lincoln Center’s 51st Chaplin Award has consistently performed a magic trick in reverse, dazzling us with his grounded, earthbound presence
Critical cinema: the experimental film scholar talks about programming a series with his students, the films he can’t avoid showing first-year undergrads, and what it truly means to “comprehend” cinema
Future picture: festival highlights like The Misconceived, Tycoon, and Chronovisor suggested a new kind of visual storytelling defined by a fluid mix of mediums and methodologies
Portrait galleries: festival highlights like Once Upon a Time in Harlem, I Want Your Sex, and If I Go Will They Miss Me offered a balm for independent art
Final call: many of the best films at the fest’s last edition in Park City affirmed its late founder Robert Redford’s belief in “the unexpected perspective”
