Walking on water: A selection of newly restored films make clear the continuing relevance of the work of Lorenza Mazetti, a long-unheralded artist whose influential work is finally getting its due
Don’t look away: the director discusses his debut feature, a disquieting critique of the colonial history of Chile by way of the grand cinematic idiom of the Hollywood western
Gut check: the latest pair of films from Soi Cheang, a Hong Kong genre master little known in the U.S., demonstrate the sleek blend of existential bleakness and technical wizardry that characterizes his cinema
Out of the past: in this recently unearthed interview, the master filmmaker shares his thoughts on working with actors, adapting fiction, the debatable necessity of originality, and much more
Home viewing: the director discusses his latest highly personal documentary, his fascination with home movies, and his decision to withdraw his film from last November’s IDFA in protest of the festival’s response to the war in Gaza
Physical graffiti: Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things, starring Emma Stone as a reanimated dead woman, is a ribald, expertly designed, steampunk vision of feminist wish fulfillment—but is it any more than that?
Worlds apart: the Japanese auteur discusses his Cannes Queer Palm–winner Monster, a clever, multiperspectival drama about the inner world of children that adults cannot—often to great detriment—access or comprehend
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