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Published by Film at Lincoln Center

Phantom Light

Beautiful Work: The Female Gaze in Beau Travail, La France, and The Romance of Astrea and Celadon

By Imogen Sara Smith
July 24, 2018
The way I see it: a series on female cinematographers at the Film Society of Lincoln Center invites a closer look at how we look

Hard Traveling: Araby, Gabriel and the Mountain, and Vagabond

By Imogen Sara Smith
June 22, 2018
Miles to go: two clear-eyed new films of people on the move follow in the footsteps of Varda’s story of a drifter

Word Pictures: The Day After, with The Seagull and On Chesil Beach

By Imogen Sara Smith
May 24, 2018
Wrapped up in books: the different levels of narrative and time in a trio of tales about lovelorn men

Cities and Exiles: In the Last Days of the City and Art of the Real x 2

By Imogen Sara Smith
April 24, 2018
No home movie: three films that confront the realities of displaced people in very different situations

Feeling at Home: Our House, Drift, and Western

By Imogen Sara Smith
March 29, 2018
Faces places: two New Directors films and Grisebach’s latest rethink how people relate to the spaces they’re in

In Our Time: Abbas Kiarostami’s 24 Frames

By Imogen Sara Smith
February 6, 2018
Moving stills: Abbas Kiarostami’s final film expresses the beauty of the medium and its status as memento mori