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
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
Stay awake: critics Robert Daniels, Guy Lodge, and Madeline Whittle join to discuss buzzy festival selections Between the Temples, I Saw the TV Glow, and many more
Up in smoke: our Sundance coverage kicks off with critics Lovia Gyarkye and Guy Lodge on some early titles including Freaky Tales, Handling the Undead, Girls State and more
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
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