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Why Emma Seligman Decided to Make a Movie About a Queer Fight Club

The Canadian director Emma Seligman was only twenty-four when she shot her first feature film, the 2020 comedy “Shiva Baby.” In the movie,...

How “Winter Kills” Nails the Paranoid Style

Conspiracy theories are faith-based history, and “Winter Kills,” a 1979 neo-noir, riffs on a scriptural pillar of this realm—the assassination of President John...

“Passages” and an Art Monster’s Fierce Purity

The suffering in Ira Sachs’s remarkable film results not from cruelty but from truth. Source link

Like a Political X-Ray, “Our Body” Exposes the Intrusions of Law in Medicine

The veteran French filmmaker Claire Simon’s new documentary, “Our Body,” explores the lives of patients and doctors in a women’s hospital in Paris....

Breaking the Fourth Wall: Adrian Tomine on “Shortcomings”

The latest comics-to-film adaptation, “Shortcomings,” Randall Park’s directorial début, will be released on August 4th. It is based on Adrian Tomine’s graphic novel...

Hollywood’s Slo-Mo Self-Sabotage

“Black Mirror,” the anthology series best known for dreaming up dystopian uses for near-future technology, took aim at its own network in the...

What to Stream: The Radical Insolence of Charlie Chaplin

Charlie Chaplin had a big problem with law as it was enforced, order as it was imposed, and the norms of propriety and...

Staging Nuclear Dread in “Oppenheimer” and “Doctor Atomic”

The late Daniel Ellsberg, in his book “The Doomsday Machine,” drew attention to a curious conversation that took place between Albert Speer and...

The Life of J. Robert Oppenheimer

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“Earth Mama” Reinvigorates the Closeup, the Beating Heart of the Cinema

More than telling a story, shaping performances, or conveying emotions, the art of directing is creating a unified spectrum of experience. A good...

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