Window on the world: incarcerated journalist Phillip Vance Smith, II delves into how people in prisons watch movies—the streaming devices available, the viewing options, the costs of renting a film, and more
Easy rider: the late cinematographer Navroze Contractor wielded the camera as both a weapon and a paintbrush, giving stunning form to bold adventures in independent Indian fiction
Smackdown: Doug Liman’s Road House remake and Dev Patel’s the vigilante thriller Monkey Man, two exemplars of the Action Movie, balance style and substance to different effect
Dirty work: Alice Rohrwacher’s La chimera unearths the contradictions at the heart of a brittle society where culture is yet another arena in which the wealthy exploit the poor
Wellness check: Nicolas Philibert’s new documentary On the Adamant is the latest in a long line of film portraits of hospitals, including films by Frederick Wiseman, Claire Simon, and others
Raindrops keep falling: Charles Burnett’s long unavailable The Annihilation of Fish is an interracial love story that does not make race and age “problems” to be solved, but treats them as mere facts of existence
Smile through it: a trilogy of early features by Dutch filmmaker Marleen Gorris explore the misogyny constraining women’s everyday lives—and their acts of disobedience and rebellion—through complex, provocative narratives
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