Light touches: this year’s slate was dotted with life-affirming standouts like Claire Denis’s Fire, Mikhaël Hers’s The Passengers of the Night, and more
Fresh perspective: the nonfiction lineup ran the gamut from the exploitative provocation of Jihad Rehab to the genuinely moving uplift of jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy
A closer look: Scathing but myopic in its critique of the sexist cinema of Hollywood, Nina Menkes’s Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power regurgitates the blind spots of male-gaze theory.
Factory settings: a long-awaited retrospective shines a light on the films of Márta Mészáros, thickly textured portraits of love affairs, workdays, and friendships between women
Care and care alike: on cinema as a cultural and communal practice—and not just an industry—and the increasing need for an ethics of “care” in film culture
A flurry of metaphors: Radu Jude’s Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn is a profane and laugh-out-loud funny film about the open (and oft-denied) wounds of Romania’s fraught history
