By Mark Peranson In a subconscious sense, the impassioned cris de coeur that rippled through the internet following the shocking, More →
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Film Criticism After Film Criticism: The J. Hoberman Affair
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Exploded View | Valentin de las Sierras / The Last Movie
By Chuck Stephens Every film Bruce Baillie makes is a folk song he’s hearing in his head. The exquisite Valentin More →
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Zhao Liang
By Albert Serra For China, Zhao Liang is the poet of justice. All his works deal, directly or indirectly, with More →
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Wang Bing
By Chris Fujiwara If there is a science-fiction element in Wang Bing’s work, an attempt to imagine unimaginable (though real) More →
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Festivals | Berlin: A Few Crazy Thoughts on Tabu
By Mark Peranson “The famous saudade of the Portuguese is a vague and constant desire for something that does not More →
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Film Criticism After Film Criticism: The J. Hoberman Affair
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Talking Pictures: Jean-Luc Godard’s Introduction to a True History of Cinema and Television
By Phil Coldiron From April to October of 1978, Jean-Luc Godard made seven trips to Montreal’s Concordia University, delivering two More →
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BAFICI 14: Reviens Vite
By Jay Kuehner There’s a certain poetic justice to the unxpected trajectory—provided by the 14th Buenos Aires Festival of Independent More →
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Longue durée: The Images Festival at 25
By Aliza Ma The windows were all shaded and the sunlight could no more penetrate these dark rooms than the More →
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Escape Hatches: The Cabin in the Woods
By Adam Nayman **SO, SO MANY SPOILERS BELOW** It’s one thing to get a lesson in remedial spectatorship from a More →
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We Sing, But Not Ourselves: Terence Davies’ The Deep Blue Sea
By Michael Sicinski Is Terence Davies a radical conservative? Often one of the signs of a great artist is his More →
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Talking Pictures: Jean-Luc Godard’s Introduction to a True History of Cinema and Television
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