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Features

Feel the Love

By Shonni Enelow
July 1, 2019
Thirty years after Do the Right Thing, the revolutionary acting legacy of Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee still yields lessons to learn beyond realism

Crossing Over

By Dennis Lim
July 1, 2019
A prize-winning triumph at Cannes, Mati Diop’s Dakar-set debut feature Atlantics confirms an oeuvre of elemental immediacy and dreamlike exile

Notes from Underground: Peter Whitehead

By Henry K. Miller
June 18, 2019
The filmmaker, who passed away last week, wrestled with—and embodied—the contradictions of the ’60s counterculture

The Scorpion and the Frog: Orson Welles’ Mr. Arkadin

By Peter Bogdanovich and Gorden Hitchens
June 12, 2019
A "new" film by Orson Welles makes its American debut

On Earth as It Is in Heaven: Ermanno Olmi

By Deborah Young
June 6, 2019
Ermanno Olmi, the subject of a complete retrospective opening June 14 at Film at Lincoln Center, is one of cinema’s great spiritual artists

Write What You Know

By Devika Girish
June 4, 2019
Cheerfully on point, workplace comedy Late Night plays out complex issues with the easy candor of its star, Mindy Kaling

Free to Be You and Me

By Soraya Nadia McDonald
May 6, 2019
In Jordan Peele's Us, the doubled characters of Adelaide and Red pose vexing questions about assimilation in America

Truth or Consequences

By Aliza Ma
May 1, 2019
With Non-Fiction, Olivier Assayas sets his galaxy brain to work on the shifting sand and mirages of the vaunted digital age

Breaking Ground

By Film Comment
May 1, 2019
To celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Film at Lincoln Center, we present a brief history via legendary intrepid programmer Amos Vogel

Personal Effects

By Film Comment
May 1, 2019
A selection of buried treasures from 50 years of Film at Lincoln Center