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Angel of History

By Devika Girish
June 7, 2021
In the drink: Undine reenergizes the recursive motifs of Christian Petzold's oeuvre while also sharpening his longstanding interest in history and capitalism

Toward a Theory of Film Directing

By Charles Grodin
May 24, 2021
From our our May-June 2006 issue, the late-lamented actor's personal take on the actor-director relationship

A Living Nightmare

By Soraya Nadia McDonald
September 17, 2020
The horrors of slavery in America return in Antebellum, an audacious thriller that revives thorny questions of how to portray the past

The Ecstatic Art

By Sheila O'Malley
May 8, 2020
For modernist poet H.D. and her contemporaries at the journal Close Up, the young medium of cinema lit up the room with soul-stirring force

Can Dialectics Break Bricks?

By Devika Girish
May 8, 2020
Colombian filmmaker Camilo Restrepo’s debut feature Los Conductos burns white-hot with the misterioso story of an outlaw at large

Blood on Their Hands: Luis Ospina

By Ela Bittencourt
May 8, 2020
Colombian class warrior Luis Ospina blazed a revolutionary trail through Latin American cinema with subversive genre and documentary works

Enter the Void

By Nicolas Rapold
May 8, 2020
Christopher Harris’s urban landmark still/here expresses the feelings of absence in ravaged St. Louis neighborhoods to create an afterimage of African-American experience

By Any Means Necessary: Med Hondo

By Aboubakar Sanogo
May 1, 2020
A dazzling voice for Africa and the diaspora, filmmaker Med Hondo threw down fearless, prickly experiments that banish colonial rot

Inside Man

By Nick Pinkerton
May 1, 2020
The pandemic seclusion changes how each of us is touched by movies. Nick Pinkerton reaches out

I Think We’re Alone Now

By Devika Girish
May 1, 2020
With no theater to step into, Devika Girish reflects on the options for connecting with others and with cinema