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Phantom Light

Phantom Light: First Cow and Beyond

By Imogen Sara Smith
March 26, 2020
Range life: Kelly Reichardt’s latest shares themes of nature and capitalism with Bernd Shoch’s new documentary Olanda

Noir City International

By Imogen Sara Smith
February 27, 2020
Night on Earth: this year’s edition of the traveling festival focuses on international films from the classic noir era

Phantom Light: To Save and Project

By Imogen Sara Smith
January 30, 2020
Return engagement: MoMA’s annual series uncovers the remarkable films of Louis Valray along with a classic of Thai cinema

Phantom Light: Portrait of a Lady on Fire and Little Women

By Imogen Sara Smith
December 23, 2019
Sisters and lovers: two new movies dwell on the emotional bonds between women, and on the choice—or lack thereof—of life paths offered to them

Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project, Shooting the Mafia, and The Irishman

By Imogen Sara Smith
November 26, 2019
Saving time: two new documentaries dwell on the compulsion to record as a means of staving off the relentless passage of time

Phantom Light: “Shitamachi: Tales of Downtown Tokyo” and Parasite

By Imogen Sara Smith
October 31, 2019
The lower depths: a series of gritty Japanese films at Film Forum shares themes of class and longing with Bong Joon-ho’s thriller

Unquiet Spirits: Atlantics, Vitalina Varela, and Martin Eden

By Imogen Sara Smith
September 30, 2019
On three strikingly beautiful films at NYFF57: Mati Diop’s Atlantics, Pedro Costa’s Vitalina Varela, and Pietro Marcello’s Martin Eden

Bearing Witness: The Load and Depth Two

By Imogen Sara Smith
August 29, 2019
On the road: two films by Ognjen Glavonic explore the same grim events through documentary and narrative fiction

Mothers and Daughters: Honeyland and For Sama

By Imogen Sara Smith
July 24, 2019
Standing witness: two new documentaries find moments of hard-won beauty in difficult times

Labor of Love: In the Aisles, Il Posto, and The Last Black Man in San Francisco

By Imogen Sara Smith
June 18, 2019
Work and play: three films find beauty in the everyday lives of characters struggling to adapt to the modern world