Mirror image: Joanna Hogg’s latest—featuring Tilda Swinton in a mesmerizing double role—reimagines British gothic horror with specters both familiar and familial
Galaxy brains: valiant critics Jessica Kiang and Nathan Lee join to battle over the relative merits and demerits of the much-buzzed-about Cate Blanchett vehicle TÁR
At sea: Tsuchimoto’s docs about the pollution crisis in Minamata, Japan are must-see case studies for a contemporary world faced with its own “disasters of disinvestment“
Hot air: Alejandro G. Iñarritu’s semi-autobiographical fever dream, Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths, is essentially an overstuffed, self-indulgent concoction
Dig it: the happenings at Copenhagen’s Rigshospitalet remain as strange and bitingly funny as ever in The Kingdom Exodus, the anticipated third season of Lars von Trier’s series
Claws of light: the prolific filmmaker discusses the central role played by his family in Philippine film history, his work on seminal films by Lino Brocka and others, and more
Industrial strength: the new mega-sequel struggles with both the loss of its predecessor’s leading man and the roteness that afflicts any entry in the self-perpetuating Marvel Cinematic Universe
Against interpretation: filmmaker Radu Jude and critic Giovanni Marchini Camia join to discuss the continuing significance of the films and writing of Pier Paolo Pasolini
Institutional critique: the great director, known for his nonfiction work, dissects married life in his new narrative feature based on the journals of Sophia Tolstoy
Police stories: scholar Pooja Rangan and filmmaker Brett Story join to discuss “Watch the Cops: Policing New York in the Movies,” their recent series at the Brooklyn Academy of Music
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