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Features

I’ll Be Your Mirror

By Nathan Lee
November 29, 2021
Thin crust: Paul Thomas Anderson’s highly anticipated (and widely feted) Licorice Pizza leaves an aftertaste both sweet and sour

See Through: The Art of the Real 2021

By Ela Bittencourt
November 22, 2021
Evasive truths: the eighth edition of the festival traces the various ways in which contemporary cinema challenges the foundations of ethnography

I Like It Deep

By James Wham
November 22, 2021
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

Giving Time: Amos Vogel and the Legacy of Cinema 16

By Abby Sun
November 15, 2021
“The ‘gatekeeper’—i.e. myself”: Sun examines the legacy of Vogel’s Cinema 16 and reflects its implications for subversive film programming today

Polished Drafts

By Steven Mears
November 8, 2021
Fit to print: Wes Anderson’s star-packed anthology The French Dispatch, though a bit too finicky, acheives moments of genuine grace

Grief in Relief

By Corina Copp
November 1, 2021
Emerald cities: In Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir Part II trauma and pain are transformed, through arduous self-examination, into art

Just Deserts

By Michael Sragow
October 25, 2021
Shifting sands: Denis Villeneuve’s Dune typifies the current mania for world-building over character-building

Secrets and Lies

By Manu Yáñez Murillo
October 18, 2021
Birth of tragedy: the search for truth, both personal and historical, is the driving force of Parallel Mothers, Pedro Almodóvar’s most openly political film to date

Waking Life

By Imogen Sara Smith
October 18, 2021
Time’s arrow: in Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Memoria, the past is alien, layered with trauma and the beauty of the unknowable

Of Gods and Men

By Molly Haskell
October 12, 2021
Saddle sore: Jane Campion’s latest is lacking in the richly personal, idiosyncratic feminism of her great early films