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Catherine Sullivan’s X-Ray Dreams
Sullivan’s film, The Startled Faction (a sensitivity training), is a tumbling-together of social satire, utopian feminism, and anarchist agitprop.
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A Movie Uncovers Unpublished Letters Written to Ms. Magazine in the 1970s
Yours in Sisterhood has people reading the letters aloud, musing on feminism now versus in the 1970s.
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To Infinity and Beyond, Yayoi Kusama Grapples With Conventions
A new film tells the story of Yayoi Kusama’s reckoning with her own demons and those of the artworld.
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From Julian Schnabel’s van Gogh Film to a New Godard at the 56th New York Film Festival
Standouts at this year's New York Film Festival range from a Vincent van Gogh biopic by Julian Schnabel to a documentary on free jazz, with a range of great, art-inflected offerings in between.
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The Double Bind of Palestinian Women in Israeli Society
Maysaloun Hamoud’s film about three Palestinian women living in Tel Aviv rattles stereotypes.
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A Surrealist Filmmaker's Legacy of Feminism and Cinematic Innovation
Germaine Dulac may have just been too far ahead of her time as a queer woman filmmaker, and too prodigious in her output to receive proper recognition in any category.
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The Anarchic Movies of Ronald Rice, a 1960s Underground Filmmaker Who Died at 29
With just a handful of films to his name, Rice is a seminal, if little seen, New York filmmaker who embraced a rowdy improvisational approach.
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Searching Is the Latest Movie to Be Told Entirely on a Computer Screen
In Searching, a man begins scouring his daughter's computer and social media presence after she goes missing.
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The Banality of Capitalism in China
There are moments of friendship and warmth in Wang Bing's documentary Bitter Money but the primary sense a viewer gets is that being on the bottom rung of capitalism in China consists mainly of boredom.
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The Comic Absurdity of the Atomic Threat
The documentary The Atomic Cafe dissects how American Cold War propaganda directed the country's culture into putting a cheerful, upbeat face on possible apocalypse.
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A New Biopic About Nico, Warhol’s “It” Girl and Velvet Underground Singer
In a new biopic, Nico, 1988, director Susanna Nicchiarelli documents the tumultuous final years of The Velvet Underground's Nico.
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A Chance to Revisit Barbara Loden’s Only Feature Film, Considered a Feminist Masterpiece
While Loden initially went unnoticed, today she is seen as an unsung auteur whose promise was tragically cut short by her death from breast cancer in 1980.