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In Memoriam

Labor of Love

By Kent Jones
February 23, 2018
Dan Talbot followed his passion for cinema against the tide of a changing industry

In Memoriam: Paolo Villaggio

By Giovanni Vimercati
August 7, 2017
Industrial strength comedy: a remembrance of the Italian comedian who satirized soulless corporatism and Marxist sacred cows

In Memoriam: Vito Acconci

By Chris Shields
May 8, 2017
Close talker: a few words on the performance artist and the cinematic immediacy of his art

In Memoriam: Jonathan Demme

By Film Comment
April 27, 2017
Remembering the director of Stop Making Sense, Something Wild, and Silence of the Lambs

In Memoriam: Peter Hutton

By Max Nelson
December 23, 2016
The home and the world: the filmmaker, who passed away this year, traveled the world by camera, gathering observational landscapes from the Catskills to Bangladesh

In Memoriam: Věra Chytilová (1929-2014)

By Meredith Slifkin
March 19, 2014
Remembering the life and work of one of the Czech New Wave's most distinctive voices

Meta Critic

By Jonathan Rosenbaum
February 24, 2012
Novelist and film writer Gilbert Adair (1944-2011), an irreplaceable literary dandy