Straight, no chaser: Alain Gomis’s artful remix of a 1969 French TV interview with Thelonious Monk dissects the casual racism suffered by the musical genius
Binary systems: two Berlinale standouts, Our Body and Orlando, My Political Biography grapple productively with the boundaries between subjective and objective experience
Life spans: the Scottish artist discusses Berlinale highlight Being in a Place – A Portrait of Margaret Tait, his experimental portrait of the great Orkney filmmaker
Don’t look back: critics Giovanni Marchini Camia, Victor Guimarães, and Frédéric Jaeger join to discuss Angela Schanelec’s Music, Hong Sangsoo’s In Water, German cinema at the Berlinale, and much more
Earth, wind, and fire: Inney Prakash, Edo Choi, and Caitlin Quinlan join to discuss the festival's buzzy new premieres, including Tótem, Samsara, Afire, The Plough, and Allensworth
Reversal stock: even after a rash of changes, this year's edition still retains the fest’s long-standing commitment to adventurous international art cinema
Dust in the wind: critics Antoine Thirion and Jean-Michel Frodon join to discuss Disco Boy, Manodrome, Ingeborg Bachmann – Journey into the Desert, and more
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