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Features

I Know Where I’m Going

By Sheila O'Malley
May 1, 2019
In Joanna Hogg's sublime breakout The Souvenir, a budding artist strives to stay true to her path despite a consuming romance

Robert Altman Speaking

By Jan Dawson
April 9, 2019
The late filmmaker, FSLC’s 1994 Chaplin Award Gala honoree, offers his take on 1973's The Long Goodbye

We Can Be Heroes: Agnès Varda

By Wang Muyan
March 29, 2019
Read our 2017 conversation with the great filmmaker, who passed away on March 29

Higher Learning: Labeling Black Unbankable

By Maryann Erigha
March 28, 2019
Split ticket: how Hollywood insiders socially construct audiences by strategically targeting specific racial demographics

Interview: Ilya Khrzhanovsky

By Jonathan Romney
March 13, 2019
The mind behind the massively ambitious Dau discusses the mysterious, "pluridisciplinary" project

Ice Age

By Aliza Ma
March 6, 2019
With An Elephant Sitting Still, Hu Bo leaves behind a shattering final testament to China’s postindustrial no-hopers

Neither Here Nor There

By Imogen Sara Smith
March 1, 2019
Always leaving or being left behind, the refugee protagonists of Christian Petzold's Transit circulate on the tides of war and history

The Point of No Return

By Nick Pinkerton
March 1, 2019
Claire Denis’s volatile High Life bonds sex and death drives through the space voyage of convicts condemned to the void

Higher Learning: The Unwatchable

By W.J.T. Mitchell
February 26, 2019
See no evil: what does it mean to proclaim something “unwatchable,” whether disturbing, revolting, poor quality, tedious, or literally inaccessible?

Triumph of the Will

By J. Hoberman
February 5, 2019
Museum quality: Leni Riefenstahl and the aestheticization of politics