Refusing the waves: Milagros Mumenthaler’s The Currents and Mascha Schilinski’s Sound of Falling revive the image of the self-drowned woman with a bracing literalism
Simultaneous dimensions: three films at this year’s NYFF made by or about Palestinians pry open apertures from which we must make sense of Gaza’s horizon as intimately tied to our own
Prison films: Phillip Vance Smith, II reflects on how movies like Life, Penitentiary, and Sing Sing portray life behind bars, and how his own experience of watching them has changed over his years of incarceration
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