Drunk in my past: this year's festival offered a feast of repertory delights, from a Columbia Pictures centenary program to an appearance by none other than Shah Rukh Khan
Hook or crook: directors Davy Chou and Martika Ramirez Escobar discuss their relationships with piracy and alternative distribution circuits in Cambodia and the Philippines
Look both ways: three new publications of Chris Marker’s texts expand our understanding of him as a multimodal artist, as attentive to the formal qualities of cinema as to matters of prose, graphic design, and civic issues
Love is all: the great director Michael Roemer, now 96 years old, speaks about his time with Dreyer and the lasting impact of the filmmaker on his life and work
Parables and paradoxes: the Czech festival marked the centenary of Franz Kafka's death with a retrospective of films exploring the writer's influence in the movies
Hands up: it’s been a feeble year for horror, and a batch of high-profile summer releases—A Quiet Place: Day One, MaXXXine, and Longlegs—offer scant remedy
Born to film: in their openness and DIY approach, Danny Lyon's films resist the streamlined, polished professionalism that The Bikeriders movie adaptation epitomizes
Sing me back home: Angela Schanelec's Music is a hypnotic reverie about hands and feet, landscapes and bodies, gazes and gestures, and people suddenly lifting their voices in song
