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Rep Diary

Street Magicians

By David Schwartz
March 11, 2024
Urban delights: two new programs at MoMA spotlight the distinctive city symphonies of Ernie Gehr and Max Fleischer

Rep Diary: Roman Hollywood

By Farran Smith Nehme
December 11, 2017
By all means, Rome: the eternal city is celebrated in Film Forum’s expansive series about studio films set there

Rep Diary: Joaquim Pedro de Andrade

By Ela Bittencourt
October 27, 2017
Figments of a nation: the Brazilian director’s delirious (and dangerous) allegories pulse with the enduring energies of Cinema Novo

Rep Diary: A Trip Down Poverty Row

By Imogen Sara Smith
October 17, 2017
The strength of street knowledge: the Museum of Modern Art’s Poverty Row series puts a spotlight on high quality, low-rent films

Rep Diary: Who’s Crazy?

By Giovanni Vimercati
August 24, 2016
Outside of the box: a radical 1967 film about escaped psychiatric patients questions the function of institutions and society itself

Rep Diary: The Letter x 2

By Steven Mears
January 25, 2016
Time makes the heart grow nastier: from Jeanne Eagels to Bette Davis, what happened to the classic antiheroine of the W. Somerset Maugham play

Rep Diary: Seijun Suzuki

By Marc Walkow
November 6, 2015
Free jazz: looking at some of the Nikkatsu auteur's lesser-known (but characteristically manic) films

Rep Diary: Rocco and His Brothers

By Scott Eyman
October 13, 2015
Paradise lost: Luchino Visconti's epic of a family's strife in the big city returns to theaters with a 4K restoration

Rep Diary: Nancy Carroll

By R. Emmet Sweeney
September 17, 2015
Strong female character: this year’s Capitolfest showcased the talents of a would-be star who couldn't escape the old song-and-dance