Dutch angle: critics Jordan Cronk and Beatrice Loayza join to round up some highlights from this year's festival, including Dream Team, The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire, Mario, and more
Truth and consequences: three notable nonfiction titles from this year's Sundance stood out from the lineup: the Richard Linklater–directed first episode of the documentary trilogy God Save Texas; War Game; and Union
The French Chef: Trần Anh Hùng’s The Taste of Things, starring former off-screen lovers Juliette Binoche and Benoît Magimel, boasts all the classic elements of culinary cinema, but deploys them to culturally and narratively specific ends
Exile on main street: the movies Luis Buñuel made in exile, the subject of a screening series at the Museum of Modern Art, combine his avant-garde roots with the commercial demands of the Golden Age of Mexican Cinema
Through the looking glass: the director of the Sundance sensation talks about making a new kind of trans cinema, recreating '90s television, and finding beauty in horror
Deep thoughts: Monica Castillo, Robert Daniels, and Vadim Rizov join for a documentary-centric discussion of DEVO, Eno, Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat, and more
Blurred vision: critics Justin Chang, Vadim Rizov, and Madeline Whittle join to discuss mid-festival films A Different Man, A Real Pain, Sujo, Good One, and Black Box Diaries
Tough love: critics Vadim Rizov, Abby Sun, and Madeline Whittle join to discuss festival selections Love Lies Bleeding, War Game, Presence, Girls Will be Girls, and more
Born again: Phạm Thiên Ân’s hypnotic debut feature Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell is a formally breathtaking meditation on faith—and a testament to cinema as a vehicle for miraculous transformation
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