Scenes from the class struggle: a new repertory series at MoMA connects Portugal’s political revolution to a renegotiation of the relationship between documentary and fiction
Time and time again: recent works by Elisabeth Subrin and Zia Anger join a lineage of women’s films that invite us to witness failures and refusal, imbuing them with significance through re-performance
Starting places: critics Erika Balsom and Benjamin Crais join to discuss the undersung filmmaker’s richly heterogenous, and endlessly fascinating, body of work
Into the limelight: in settings both grim and glamorous, Sean Baker's Anora repeatedly shows how despair is the bedrock for the false-front distractions of American kitsch
Body doubles: David Cronenberg's The Shrouds and Pedro Almodóvar's The Room Next Door find both auteurs still playing around the permutations of the flesh, but in a decidedly retrospective mood
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