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What Do We Mean by “Cinematic Feedback”?
With Feedback, Part 2, Anthology Film Archives presents experimental films that specifically bend image, sound, or both back in on themselves.
Dan Schindel
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How Did Stan Lee Become the Face of Marvel?
A new documentary adds nothing to the historical record or collective conversation on Lee, but does work to bolster the man’s mythology.
Interview
Apichatpong Weerasethakul on Human Suffering, VR, and the Long Take
The Thai director discusses his dreamlike films in a conversation with Hyperallergic ahead of his career retrospective in New York City.
Interview
John Akomfrah Is Optimistic About the Future
A founding member of the Black Audio Film Collective, Akomfrah has explored Black life in Britain and beyond through acute observational films.
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Spinning a Web of Murakami's Stories
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman captures Haruki Murakami’s combination of low-key magical realism, sexual neurosis, and loneliness.
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New Directors/New Films Festival Takes an Experimental Turn
A host of documentaries exemplify ND/NF's unconventional programming philosophy.
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What Salamanders Tell Us About Our Future on Earth
A Common Sequence muses on the different ways that humans assess, categorize, understand, and often exploit the natural world.
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New York’s Trans Sex Workers Tell Their Stories
The Stroll is not just a chronicle of trans life and activism in the 1980s and ’90s, but also of urban “renewal” in the 21st century.
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What to See in This Year’s Sundance Film Festival
In myriad ways, coming as it does in January, Sundance sets the stage for US cinema through the rest of the year.
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The Design Duo Behind Pink Floyd's Iconic Aesthetic
Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis) is a reasonably informative, if rather dry, look at a subject with much more potential for exploration.
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We’re Screwed, But It’s Okay
Rachel Lears’s new film To the End is optimistic, perhaps to a fault.
Interview
Todd Haynes Discusses New Velvet Underground Doc
The director sat with Hyperallergic for a conversation about the making of his new film The Velvet Underground.