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Features

American Friends

By Dan Sullivan
January 4, 2016
A group of playfully iconoclastic collaborators fool around with the essential laws of attraction

Into the Woods

By David Fear
January 4, 2016
Alejandro G. Iñárritu demonstrates the virtues of doing things the hard way with The Revenant

Adaptation: Patricia Highsmith

By Jackson Arn
November 25, 2015
Through the keyhole: revisit this 2015 essay considering the sidelong stories of the writer behind Carol and Strangers on a Train

The Infernal, Ecstatic Desire Machine of Guy Maddin

By Jonathan Romney
September 3, 2015
Too much is just right in The Forbidden Room, the movie-mad filmmaker’s latest feat of phantasmagorical cinema

Interview: Satyajit Ray

By James Blue
April 16, 2015
Read an excerpt from a 1968 interview with the master filmmaker, who celebrates his centenary this year

Pleasures of the Flesh

By David Thompson
April 2, 2015
The erotic oeuvre of Walerian Borowczyk, animator, art-house auteur, and painterly smut peddler

Howard Hawks: Masculine Feminine

By Molly Haskell
March 4, 2015
Hawks’ view of a world precariously divided between the male and female principles

Jim Jarmusch Interviewed

By Gavin Smith
March 1, 2015
The director of The Limits of Control talks about going out on a limb with Gavin Smith in this online exclusive

Making Film: Behind the Scenes with Beckett

By Daniel Eagan
December 8, 2014
New archival evidence illuminates the avant-garde playwright's lone foray into the eight art

Time Passages

By Vivian Sobchack
November 3, 2014
Space-time is all relative in Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar