Motor away: Barney Platts-Mills’s newly restored gem is a tale of a teen struggling in a blighted urban landscape that is also a vivid document of the less-than-swinging side of late-’60s London
Call of the wild: for the L.A.–based Kramer, her two new films are a way of recovering the queer elements of historical periods that, on the surface, appear to be anything but
Taken for a ride: Jenkins’ moving image work artist incisively analyzes how images—in film, TV, advertising, and the media landscape—set limits on the possible.
I contain multitudes: the filmmaker discusses his new film—an ode to the impossibility of representing the nation—and his penchant for “copying” his own and other artists’ work
Run it back: a renewed interest in reenactment in documentary foregrounds two historically sidelined aspects of nonfiction cinema: performance and authorship
Country living: Radu Muntean’s searching gaze digs beneath the surface of an adventure gone wrong to unearth an incisive parable about charity and power
Fog lights: the beloved Colombia, Missouri festival returned to cinemas with a varied lineup of nonfiction works, including standouts Riotsville, USA, Brotherhood, 2nd Chance, and more
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