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Ryan Coogler’s Sinners, a singularly ambitious horror film set in 1930s Mississippi, is currently setting theaters ablaze (in an array of formats and aspect ratios to boot). The film stars Coogler ...

In times like these, there are few living filmmakers I’d rather have on my side than Pedro Almodóvar. The Spanish director, who is being honored on April 28 with the Chaplin Award at a Film at Lincoln ...

While the current vogue in the culture wars is for representation above all else, in the 1970s feminist artists and writers were consumed by how to reconfigure narrative entirely. From Laura Mulvey’s ...

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William Goldman famously summed up his 1983 memoir, Adventures in the Screen Trade, by proclaiming with a Socratic flourish that “nobody knows anything.” This phrase has since endured as shorthand for ...

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This full length interview, excerpted in the print edition, is only available online. Can you tell us a little about your connection to your hometown of Kaili, and what about it culturally has ...

Video/Art: The First Fifty Years begins at the end, if only for a moment. Barbara London is recounting her experience, in 2018, of a multimedia installation by Pierre Huyghe. The work, UUmwelt, ...