Spit take: a collection of newly restored shorts from the Sudanese Film Group strain against the didactic dictates of a state-sanctioned national cinema
Through the looking glass: Greta Gerwig’s Barbie is something smarter than girlboss fantasy or canny corporate sellout—it’s a grappling, rather, with the fundamental ways in which we represent and relate to reality
Girl talk: the director of the ultra-pink blockbuster discusses imbuing inanimate objects with feeling, balancing cynicism and care, and, of course, irrepressible thoughts of death
Close shave: Masc, a new program on Criterion Channel, offers a rebuttal to the transphobic charge that transition and gender nonconformity are 21st-century phenomena
Jaw dropping: this year’s edition of the Flaherty Seminar delved into the simultaneously exhilarating and elegiac experience of contemplating the past and future of queer experimental film
Cool heads prevail: this year’s edition—especially since a recent turn to collective curation—took a typically protean approach, yielding some audaciously uncategorizable and hybrid works
At the crossroads: three striking discoveries stood out at this year's Czech festival, including Tinatin Kajrishvili’s Citizen Saint, Naqqash Khalid’s In Camera, and Ernst De Geer’s The Hypnosis
Over the shoulder: this year's festival of rediscovered cinema, featuring a retrospective of the films of Rouben Mamoulia, was not merely a celebration of past glories, but a declaration of a peculiarly privileged present
Youth in revolt: in the work the late French filmmaker Jean Eustache, the inexorable pain of living is transformed, through autobiography, into luminous cinema
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