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Features

Fresh Meat: Diary of the Dead

By Robin Wood
July 17, 2017
Diary of the Dead may be the summation of George A. Romero’s zombie cycle (at least until the next installment)

Free Range

By Amy Taubin
July 3, 2017
With Okja, Bong Joon Ho creates his most dramatically protean adventure yet—a work of interspecies friendship, galloping satire, and monstrous truths

Edmond Gréville

By Bertrand Tavernier, translated by Christina Svendsen
June 22, 2017
Channel diving: filmmaker and superfan Bertrand Tavernier pays tribute to a versatile, little-known auteur who worked in France and England

Sternberg in Full: Anatahan

By Scott Eyman
May 15, 2017
Island exile: where does Josef von Sternberg’s oft-overlooked 1953 outlier fit into the maestro's oeuvre?

Wicked Michael Parks

By Robert Horton
May 10, 2017
When Parks comes onscreen, you’re not sure where he’s coming from, but you’re sure he’s lived

Fellow Feeling

By Aliza Ma
May 3, 2017
Recently restored, the warmly realized 1972 miniseries Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day marks a thrilling new peak in Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s towering career

Blank Generation

By Howard Hampton
May 3, 2017
In Bertrand Bonello’s perfectly unsettling Paris-set thriller Nocturama, young terrorists find that the forces of destruction and consumption hold equal power

A Man Apart

By Molly Haskell
May 3, 2017
Beyond tough, Robert De Niro creates characters whose strange integrity fascinates and frightens us

Art of the Real: Andrea Tonacci

By Ela Bittencourt
May 1, 2017
No boundaries: the late director helped define Brazil's underground film movement by breaking (and mocking) the fourth wall

Holy Seeing: The Vatican on Screen

By Giovanni Vimercati
April 17, 2017
Easter eggs: surveying some Vatican films in Italian cinema in the wake of The Young Pope