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Amy Taubin

Art and Craft: First-Person Shooter

By Amy Taubin
September 10, 2018
Doubling as director and cinematographer, Reed Morano gets to the heart of the matter

Toronto Interview: Tim Sutton

By Amy Taubin
September 7, 2018
Fighting chance: the director of Donnybrook paints a grim vision of rural America through winner-takes-all cage-matches

Law of the Land

By Amy Taubin
August 27, 2018
In Ash Is Purest White, in theaters March 15, Jia Zhangke charts how one woman survives and thrives on the criminal margins

Festivals: Why Settle for Less?

By Amy Taubin
July 2, 2018
Showstoppers could still be found at Cannes beyond the security barricades

Interview: Jim McKay

By Amy Taubin
June 26, 2018
Team spirit: an inspiring voice of indie film talks about his New York drama En el Séptimo Día set among immigrant restaurant workers

Festivals: Tribeca après Cannes

By Amy Taubin
June 7, 2018
Greener pastures: could Cannes learn something from Tribeca? Our critic looks back and reflects

Review: Angels Wear White

By Amy Taubin
May 1, 2018
(Vivian Qu, China, KimStim, Opening May 4)

Art/Form: Memories of Utopia: Jean-Luc Godard’s “Collages de France” Models

By Amy Taubin
March 1, 2018
Tiny furniture: a revisitation of the director’s sprawling 2006 show at the Pompidou Center allows you to take Godard at your own speed

Mother Earth

By Amy Taubin
February 26, 2018
An unclassifiable, unflinching eco-mystery, Agnieszka Holland’s Spoor shows off the pioneering Pole’s stylistic verve—and nerves of steel

Always on the Verge

By Amy Taubin
February 23, 2018
Diversity and representation aren’t just buzzwords at Sundance—they’ve long been a way of life

Interview: Sean Baker

By Amy Taubin
September 4, 2017
Speak for yourself: the director of The Florida Project and Tangerine discusses his approaches to narrative and character

Interview: Steven Soderbergh

By Amy Taubin
August 18, 2017
Speed racer: the director discusses the form and financing behind his NASCAR-set caper, Logan Lucky, and reveals new details about his mysterious Mosaic project at HBO

Free Range

By Amy Taubin
July 3, 2017
With Okja, Bong Joon Ho creates his most dramatically protean adventure yet—a work of interspecies friendship, galloping satire, and monstrous truths

The Speed of Light in a Vacuum

By Amy Taubin
July 3, 2017
There were standouts at Cannes this year, and not much else

Cannes Brief: Varda & Denis

By Amy Taubin
May 22, 2017
New films by two of cinema’s greatest weren't in competition but towered over most that have been shown so far

Festivals: Tribeca 2017

By Amy Taubin
May 11, 2017
The right to exist: two films at the downtown New York showcase stood out from the crowd of titles and events and names

Trails of Destruction

By Amy Taubin
March 3, 2017
At Sundance, one film after another faced up to the world’s woes

Short Take: bwoy

By Amy Taubin
March 3, 2017
(John G. Young, USA, Breaking Glass Pictures, Opens April 4)

Common Sense

By Amy Taubin
December 26, 2016
American Indie axiom Jim Jarmusch talks about the art of routine in Paterson (and the assembly of chaos in Gimme Danger)

In the Desert of Digital

By Amy Taubin
July 5, 2016
Art, ghosts, and rock’n’roll made up for awards-night travesties