Easy rider: the late cinematographer Navroze Contractor wielded the camera as both a weapon and a paintbrush, giving stunning form to bold adventures in independent Indian fiction
Wild Bill: the legendary director of The Exorcist and The French Connection left behind a body of work that can be appreciated both viscerally and intellectually
Social media: programmer and producer Tom Luddy, who passed away last February, exerted a major influence on Bay Area and American film culture equal to that of the great critics or directors of his generation
Casting spells: the stalwart of American experimental film, who passed away last August, left behind five decades’ worth of intimate, illusive, and ritualistic films
Light work: the Japanese filmmaker’s tireless curiosity allowed him ever new and different angles from which to tackle questions about the singularity of each cinematic moment
