Graphic images: the Romanian director—whose film was the talk of the Locarno film festival—grapples with guilt and pleasure vis-à-vis art and culture in the context of war
Virtual reality: highlights from this year's edition include Radu Jude’s Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World and Eduardo Williams’s The Human Surge 3, both informed by our digitally-dominated daily life
Signs of the times: the most useful films for this moment of labor unrest in the film industry are those made in close connection with the workers on the front lines
Speechless: in her overview of silent film festivals around the world, scholar Maggie Hennefeld describes fragments of lost worlds revived, offering jolts of existential promise
Throughlines: the German actor, known for his extraordinary physicality, discusses his inspirations and his firecracker performance in Ira Sachs’s new film, Passages
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
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