Girl talk: the director of the ultra-pink blockbuster discusses imbuing inanimate objects with feeling, balancing cynicism and care, and, of course, irrepressible thoughts of death
Close shave: Masc, a new program on Criterion Channel, offers a rebuttal to the transphobic charge that transition and gender nonconformity are 21st-century phenomena
Jaw dropping: this year’s edition of the Flaherty Seminar delved into the simultaneously exhilarating and elegiac experience of contemplating the past and future of queer experimental film
Cool heads prevail: this year’s edition—especially since a recent turn to collective curation—took a typically protean approach, yielding some audaciously uncategorizable and hybrid works
At the crossroads: three striking discoveries stood out at this year's Czech festival, including Tinatin Kajrishvili’s Citizen Saint, Naqqash Khalid’s In Camera, and Ernst De Geer’s The Hypnosis
Over the shoulder: this year's festival of rediscovered cinema, featuring a retrospective of the films of Rouben Mamoulia, was not merely a celebration of past glories, but a declaration of a peculiarly privileged present
Youth in revolt: in the work the late French filmmaker Jean Eustache, the inexorable pain of living is transformed, through autobiography, into luminous cinema
Sing out: a program at the Academy Museum in Los Angeles showcases the many possibilities of concert movies—both as cinema and as performance—through a range of classics
Lush life: the director discusses her debut feature, the particularities of portraying Black motherhood, how she eschewed social-realist tropes, and what her (many nonprofessional) actors taught her about empathy
It belongs in a museum: the latest big-screen adventure featuring Harrison Ford’s grizzled archeologist only faintly recalls the streamlined pleasures of series highpoint, Raiders of the Lost Ark
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