Film Review
Not Your Typical Art Heist Flick
Blue-collar art thefts were the inspiration for Kelly Reichardt’s The Mastermind, which plumbs the conservative turn of the 1970s United States.
Film
Features
The New York Film Festival Dives Into the Art Scene
From feature films to experimental shorts, several highlights of this year’s lineup explore what it takes to live and work as an artist.
News
Keith Haring Is Getting the Biopic Treatment
The TV series about the graffiti and pop art icon and activist will be based on a biography of the artist published last year.
News
Thousands of Filmmakers Pledge to Boycott Israeli Cinema Institutions
“We as artists must decide whether our work will be used to mask violence or to challenge it,” said Sky Hopinka, one of the signatories along with Nan Goldin, Brian Eno, and others.
Film Review
Examining the Legacy of Fascist Cinema’s Grand Dame
A new documentary about Leni Riefenstahl shows that aesthetics and politics are inextricably linked, and that no image is innocent when wielded by the state.
Features
How Art Deco Changed American Cinema
On the centennial of the movement, Film Forum is hosting a months-long retrospective of screenings.
Art Review
When One Door Opens, Another Transports Us
Christian Marclay’s most recent assemblage-style film splices together cinematic clips of doors and the various comings and goings they usher.
Features
Art and Resilience Aligned at This Year’s BlackStar Film Festival
The festival’s 92 films from around the globe showcased cinema as a tool for experimentation, liberation, and resistance.
Film Review
At 82, Meredith Monk May Finally Get Her Due
A new documentary honors the underrecognized avant-garde artist’s prolific output and celebrates her singular vision.
Film Review
Who Are Museums Really For? And Can We Change Our Minds?
The film Binnigula’sa’ (Ancient Zapotec People) asks the questions: Who are the rightful custodians of artifacts, and what is the responsibility of museums to local communities?
Film Review
An Absurd Take on Masahisa Fukase’s Darkness
The ridiculous magical-realist flourish of an anthropomorphic raven cheapens his story and flattens the film’s engagement with his art.
Book Review
The Fraught Rapture of Seeing Other Women Onscreen
Feminist film scholar Lori Jo Marso redresses misconceptions of the gendered gaze, parsing through the lessons we can learn from our exhilaration and unease.