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Published by Film at Lincoln Center

Video Essay

Video: American Carnage

By Jeff Reichert and Farihah Zaman
November 27, 2017
Eye contact: exploring Steve Bannon’s cinematic syntax

Video Essay: Jane Birkin

By Yonca Talu
January 29, 2016
The elements of style, part one: on the occasion of the Film Society of Lincoln Center's retrospective, a visual tribute to two of Jane Birkin's career-defining performances

Video Essay: The Soundtracks of The Man Who Fell to Earth

By Sean Doyle
September 21, 2015
Imaginary worlds: a look at the unreal (and the unrealized) music of Nicolas Roeg's Bowie-powered fantasia

Video Essay: Walerian Borowczyk

By Violet Lucca
April 3, 2015
Polymorphously perverse: the Polish master of sexual cinema goes all the way, every which way

Video Essay: Altman TV

By Violet Lucca
January 28, 2015
Where did Robert Altman come from? A rare look at the great filmmaker's early television works that helped shape his inimitable style

Video Essay: The Pilgrim’s Way

By Max Nelson
December 5, 2014
Ramble on: a look at secular pilgrimages in film

Video Essay: The Witching Hour

By Pam Grossman
October 31, 2014
Naughty by nature: examining the many different faces of witches in film