Film
A Girl Gets Out From Under Her Father’s Thumb in Murina
Croatian filmmaker Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović’s debut feature accurately captures a certain kind of Balkan machismo.
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How David Lynch Found His Late Style in Lost Highway
A 4K restoration of the film offers a new chance to untangle its uneasily ambiguous, highly bifurcated plot.
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Juliette Binoche Is Torn Between Two Lovers in Claire Denis’s Both Sides of the Blade
Fans of director Claire Denis should check the film out, but as an agnostic, I find it one of her few truly awful pictures.
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New Biopics of Elvis and the Sex Pistols Share Weaknesses
Baz Luhrmann’s film Elvis and Danny Boyle’s miniseries Pistol are both overly fixated on the influence their respective musicians’ managers had on them.
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Kathleen Collins’s Groundbreaking Portrait of Black Womanhood
Ignored and undistributed upon its debut in 1982, in the decades since, the film Losing Ground has slowly gained the recognition it deserves.
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A Meta Remake-of-a-Remake Muses on the State of Cinema
Stuffed with references to historical and contemporary film, Olivier Assayas’s miniseries version of his own 1996 film Irma Vep is sometimes too clever for its own good.
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The Cinematic Time Loops of Shahram Mokri
A new box set of four of the Iranian director’s features offers a great opportunity to get to know his singular style.
Art
A Spotlight on Navajo Filmmaker Blackhorse Lowe
“I’m focused on contemporary Native American stories, the modern-day ups and downs of that lifestyle, but I’m not trying to do it in a traditional manner,” the award-winning filmmaker told Hyperallergic in an interview.
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Enter the World of “Sonic Catering” in Flux Gourmet
Peter Strickland’s latest fetish-fixated film imagines a community of artists who turn food and cooking into soundscapes.
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A Youthful Documentary Memoir Both Enthralls and Frustrates
For both good and bad, first-time filmmaker Rebeca Huntt is “the lens, the subject, the authority” of Beba.
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An Emotional Documentary Follows Two Cattlewomen on the Range
Set in remote Idaho, Bitterbrush is a satisfyingly different kind of Western.
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Reimagining the Archives of a Revolution
Portuguese filmmaker Filipa César, whose work is the subject of an online retrospective hosted by Metrograph, seeks to help Bissau-Guineans preserve the memory of their revolution.