Film
The Story of a Man’s Friendship With a Cloud
Through its magical realism, The Cloud & the Man posits the power of love in adding a tinge of color to an overlooked, black-and-white life.
Film
Film
Love May Be Timeless, But Not Painless
Rahat Mahajan's debut feature The Cloud Messenger finds resonance in suffering as a means to liberation.
Film
Hidden Cinematic Gem in NYC Shines Again With New Theater
Chinatown's venerated Downtown Community Television Center is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a state-of-the-art cinema and community hub.
Interview
The Happily Haunted Cinema of Guy Maddin
The twilight state between dreaming and waking that permeates a restoration of Maddin's Tales from the Gimli Hospital echoes that of life and death in his films.
Film
Nan Goldin's Triumphs and Tragedies
We joined devotees of the photographer and activist at a screening of the new documentary All the Beauty and Bloodshed, followed by a talk with Goldin.
Film
The Elegant Surrealism of an Animated Cult Classic
Mamoru Oshii's Angel's Egg is a haunting, elegiac phantasmagoria rich with allusive imagery and singular in its artistry.
Film
With White Noise, Decent Doesn't Cut It
Turning an “unfilmable” book into a film is one thing; making it good is another.
Film
New Emmett Till Film Moves and Rouses NYC Students
The student screening of Till emphasized an important aim of the film: to educate young people about the fierce love and activism of Mamie Till-Mobley, which played no small part in igniting the Civil Rights Movement.
Film
Stop Fetishizing Marilyn Monroe's Trauma
The problem with Andrew Dominik's biopic Blonde is its assumption that Monroe’s victimization was the most fascinating thing about her.
Film
My Imaginary Country Is a Witness to Chile's Past and Future
Patricio Guzmán combines reflection on the past, observation of the present, and hope for the future into an expansive vision of all the ideas he’s explored in his work.
Interview
A Trip Through the Many Worlds of David Bowie
With Moonage Daydream, director Brett Morgen sought to let Bowie’s music and philosophy hit in a whole new way, immersing audiences in an IMAX experience.
Film
Latinos Severely Underrepresented in Film and TV, Report Finds
Although Latinos represent 18.7% of the United States’s population as of the 2020 census, only 3.1% of lead roles in television shows feature them.