Sleight of hand: the recipient of Film at Lincoln Center’s 51st Chaplin Award has consistently performed a magic trick in ...

The multi-hyphenate star of The Christophers and Mother Mary reflects on what it’s like to do it all It was June 2020, three ...

Colonialism has always been the subtext of the Argentine filmmaker's work. In her first documentary feature, it is the text ...

Old and New Beginnings. The critic revisits his years as a Paris and London correspondent for the magazine. by Jonathan ...

Read this story as part of the archived issue. It seems the only proper way to write about Kira Muratova is to write in short snippets, sporadic fits and fragments. As if trying to mimic the way she ...

Read this story as part of the archived issue. Sirk’s extraordinary life has been marked by two abrupt and dramatic departures—at just those moments of dreamlike success that would have prompted most ...

Although he made one movie about mad love—The Curious Case of Benjamin Button—David Fincher never seemed a director deeply concerned with intimate relationships between women and men. His primary ...

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The more things change: Ava DuVernay offers a sometimes indirect portrait of Martin Luther King Jr. at a crucial moment Selma begins with the camera squarely framing Martin Luther King Jr. (David ...

Time-space continuum: the director of bifurcated drama The Dreamed Path discusses the role poetry, books, and dogs play in her project of contingent enigmas “Angela Schanelec has spent the past 20 ...

The director of Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian talks in depth about styles of acting and expressing a sense of displacement Last fall at the New York Film Festival, the filmmaker Arnaud ...

On the Film Society of Lincoln Center's series showcasing the fiery, insightful, and ever timely words of Harlem's native son and preeminent social critic Go Tell It on the Mountain “The rise and fall ...