On fire: for part 2 of our Fanon on Screen series, Maysles Documentary Center executive director Kazembe Balagun, scholar Brent Hayes Edwards, and writer Adam Shatz join to discuss Gillo Pontecorvo’s period epic Burn!
Radical specters: the cinema has found a rich repository of inspiration, images, and ideas in the life and work of the anti-colonial writer and revolutionary
Screen time: incarcerated writer Sara Kielly offers a snapshot of a weekend’s worth of movie-watching at New York State’s Bedford Hills Correctional Facility
Righteous outlaw: The Goldman Case is a brilliant example of a courtroom drama that eschews familiar tropes, placing an individual subject into the context of a larger, historical subject in scrupulously open-ended fashion
Flying home: filmmaker Suneil Sanzgiri and writer and programmer Greg de Cuir Jr. delve into the ways in which digital media represents and responds to colonialism, diaspora, and violence
Buy now, pay later: at this year's festival, films by Radu Jude, Courtney Stephens, and Wang Bing explored advertisements, infomercials, and the lives of factory workers in an attempt to pull back the veil of the market
Drunk in my past: this year's festival offered a feast of repertory delights, from a Columbia Pictures centenary program to an appearance by none other than Shah Rukh Khan
Rhythm of the night: critics and programmers Inney Prakash and Cici Peng join to discuss highlights from this year's festival, including films by Maxime Jean-Baptiste, Hong Sangsoo, Wang Bing, and more
Behind closed doors: a new exhibition by Albert Serra at Amsterdam’s Eye Filmmuseum, based on the director’s 2019 feature Liberté, revels in Serra’s career-long interest in what happens at night
