Locally sourced: this year’s edition of the True/False Film Festival was a haven for principled cinephilia, with highlights including Hu Sanshou’s Resurrection and Francesca Scalisi’s Valentina and th ...

An example: a brilliant Brazilian director and friend, João Jardim, made a beautiful documentary in 2001 called Window of the Soul that he brought to me for the mix. The first scene is a close-up of a ...

Rungano Nyoni’s On Becoming a Guinea Fowl explores everything from the tragicomedy of survival to the Black feminist refusals ...

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Indonesian curator and artist Bunga Siagian had never seen Turang (1958), the acclaimed film by her father, Bachtiar Siagian, while growing up. She had never seen any of his films, in fact—she had ...

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For the New Woman, a new melodrama: Coming Home instead of Written on the Wind. David Ehrenstein examines this hip, old-fashioned genre. By David Ehrenstein in the September-October 1978 Issue The ...

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A year after delivering, in Beast, one of the few recent portrayals deserving of the term “fearless,” Jessie Buckley ecstatically announces herself as neither an actress who can carry a tune nor a ...

I remember seeing This Is My Land (2006), my introduction to the work of Ben Rivers, and being knocked out to find that such a modest film could so completely summon another world. Ramshackle yet ...

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