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The Spooky, Masterful Film Boris Karloff Starred in After Frankenstein
Director James Whale used expressive cinematography, Karloff’s gift for pantomime, and an original approach to fight sequences to inspire a lasting, haunting sense of fear.
A Documentary Dives Into the Making of Psycho’s Iconic Shower Scene
78/52 is an in-depth look at the background, shooting, and lasting influence of one of film’s legendary horrors.
A Czech Filmmaker Who Portrayed Eastern Bloc Life Through Women’s Eyes
At Doclisboa, a comprehensive look at Vera Chytilová’s incisive critiques of gender, family, and love.
Mother! Is a Wild Ride, But Is It Also Strangely Feminist?
The film has elicited intense reactions with its super-saturated horror, but it also has a campy streak with feminist implications.
Agnès Varda and JR Take a Trippy, Twee Road Trip
Faces Places is a kind of road movie in which two artists who are electric on screen, one 34 years old and the other 88, stop at villages to talk to and take photos of people in the French provinces.
An Artist Who Grew Up in Boyle Heights Navigates the Fight Over Gentrification
This exclusive new short documentary considers the less discussed and more personal perspective of what it’s like to be an artist from Boyle Heights.
A Film Connects Rat Control and Racism in Baltimore
With Rat Film Theo Anthony shows how Baltimore’s rat infestation and racism originate in and are enmeshed with the city’s historical development.
Standout Shorts from the Toronto International Film Festival
The festival has a choice selection of experimental works under its Wavelengths banner, from a documentary about Standing Rock to a film on black activist poetry in Detroit.
Revisiting a Devastating 1900 Hurricane in an Experimental 3D Film
PROTOTYPE, artist Blake Williams’s first feature, is a non-narrative journey through the aftermath of the Great Gavelston Hurricane shot in crisp 3D.
A Spectacle of Fables and Fascism
In a new documentary, Tuscan townspeople turn the crises of their lives into the stuff of drama.
Can a Tiny Tuscan Town Keep Its “Poor Theater” Alive?
In the documentary Spettacolo, the people of Monticchiello see art as a tool to promote populism.