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Watch it grow: the final entry in Paul Schrader’s “lonely man” trilogy is less about race than it is about broad-strokes ideas of freedom

Persistence of vision: critic Yasmina Price leads a panel conversation at the New York African Film Festival exploring legacy of the great filmmaker Safi Faye, who passed away in February

I Can Has Cheezburger: the artist duo discuss their latest mash up of pop-culture touchstones, a surprisingly perceptive analysis of the political and cultural moment

Good looking out: this year’s edition features an admirable range of work by major filmmakers, including Tsai Ming-liang, and emerging artists like Ayanna Dozier and Kimi Takesue

Casting spells: the stalwart of American experimental film, who passed away last August, left behind five decades’ worth of intimate, illusive, and ritualistic films

Time fades away: on the occasion of Shinji Somai’s ongoing retrospective at the Japan Society, critic Emerson Goo offers a primer on the director’s audacious, and enduring, filmography

Back to life: Evil Dead Rise, more than other reboots of the franchise, gets closer to squeezing real feelings out of the scenario without ever going soft on the gory trappings

Riding high: Malcolm Harris, author of a history of Palo Alto, discusses the cinema of Northern California’s most disruptive region, from Muybridge’s animal locomotion studies to dot-com era techno thrillers

Stormy skies: Laura Citarella’s uncanny epic, Trenque Lauquen, is not the kind of detective story whose secrets are explained by hard facts; rather, its pleasures are rooted in the very principle of investigation

Child’s play: Ari Aster’s latest living nightmare, Beau Is Afraid, stars Joaquin Phoenix as a stunted, paranoid mama’s boy, caught up in a roller coaster of horrors—and is not quite as interesting as one would hope