Books
The Dynamic Soviet Film Posters of the 1920s and '30s
Susan Pack's Film Posters of the Russian Avant-Garde celebrates the experimental film posters from the pre-Stalin Soviet Union.
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Antonioni's Rarely Seen Documentary on China During the Cultural Revolution
Antonioni's experimental travelogue of the early days of the Cultural Revolution is a complex, sometimes confusing, and priceless document of a transformative moment in Chinese history.
Film
The Story of an Unrealized Domed City for Minnesota
The Experimental City, directed by Chad Freidrichs, revisits the late 1960s plan for a city in Minnesota that would solve urban problems through futuristic technology and design.
Film
Animals Cope with Apocalypse in a Hand-Drawn Animated Film
Alberto Vázquez's Birdboy seeks a visual language for dealing with adult themes through traditionally childlike devices.
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In The Shape of Water, Small Acts of Rebellion Make a Splash
Guillermo del Toro's latest film, about a mute cleaning woman who liberates and falls in love with a humanoid amphibian monster, is intimate in scale but tells a potent story of empowerment.
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An Experimental Softcore Porn Series Is Revived in Japan
Last year, Nikkatsu rebooted its Roman Porno series with five new films, two of which are currently streaming on the platform Mubi.
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A Queer Love Story That's Gorgeous, If Not Groundbreaking
Is Call Me By Your Name’s queer coming-of-age love story still radical if its protagonists are beautiful white men?
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A Dark Comedy Finds Society’s Problems Reflected in the Art World
Swedish director Ruben Östlund's satire The Square follows the misadventures of the chief curator of a fictional contemporary art museum.
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The Sanitation Worker Who Finds Stories in What the Deceased Leave Behind
The short film A Garbage Story follows Nick DiMola as he cleans the debris from the homes of the deceased and departed in New York.
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Water as a Cinematic Metaphor for the Tides of Time
In Kambui Olujimi’s short film Where Does the Time Go..., water is an apt analogy for the concept of time.
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A Nuanced Portrait of Hasidic Brooklyn
The directors of Jesus Camp and Detropia offer an in-depth look at Brooklyn's Hasidic community.
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A Cruel and Comic Allegory of Destroyed Masculinity
Shock, gallows humor, and defanging the alpha male in Yorgos Lanthimos's The Killing of a Sacred Deer.