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Interviews and essays exploring the culture of film

cannes then + now

directors at this year’s festival

  • Elevated Sounds
    Elevated Sounds

    Why Kleber Mendonça Filho makes his own noise

    By Kaleem Aftab

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  • Set Ablaze
    Set Ablaze

    Director Oliver Laxe on the alchemy of wildfires, family and faith

    By Yonca Talu

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  • Getting Lucid With Richard Linklater
    Getting Lucid With Richard Linklater

    Theories on time and memory with cinema's leading chronologist

    By Josh Siegel

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  • The Censored Cinema of Iran
    The Censored Cinema of Iran

    How Jafar Panahi’s social realism pierced the veil

    By Khashayar J. Khabushani

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  • Slow and Steady
    Slow and Steady

    Kelly Reichardt’s cinematographer reflects on their evolving collaboration

    By Yonca Talu

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In Conversation

Dialogues with film artists

  • The Interpreter
    The Interpreter

    Agnès Godard’s cinematography of devotion

    By Yonca Talu

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  • Adolescence in One Take
    Adolescence in One Take

    Director Philip Barantini’s unflinching look at youth incel culture is a technical masterpiece

    By Kaleem Aftab

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  • Great Theaters: Cinémathèque de Tanger
    Great Theaters: Cinémathèque de Tanger

    How artist Yto Barrada transformed a neglected cinema in Tangier 

    By Negar Azimi

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  • Pixar’s Unlikely Rival
    Pixar’s Unlikely Rival

    Flow director Gints Zilbalodis on how his indie animation conquered the world

    By Kaleem Aftab

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  • Chloë Sevigny’s Enduring Edge
    Chloë Sevigny’s Enduring Edge

    The actor reflects on her complex character in the landmark film Boys Don’t Cry  

    By Christopher Bollen

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Most Loved

Top Ten

Themed collections chosen by the experts

  • Top 10: Nature as Character
    Top 10: Nature as Character

    Movies where the environment plays a starring role

    By Emma Reeves

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  • Top 10: Film Interiors
    Top 10: Film Interiors

    The cinematic atmospheres that make the French design Festen duo swoon, from decadent palazzos to a vampire’s living quarters in Detroit

    By Christopher Bollen

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  • Top 10: Fashion Documentaries
    Top 10: Fashion Documentaries

    Fashion’s man on the scene breaks down the art of the style documentary 

    By Derek Blasberg

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Novelists on Film

Personal takes on the impact of cinema

  • I’m Still Alive
    I’m Still Alive

    Finding solace in Stand by Me

    By Ottessa Moshfegh

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  • Woman on the Verge
    Woman on the Verge

    A novelist reflects on Morvern Callar

    By Deepti Kapoor

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  • Retracing 3 Women
    Retracing 3 Women

    What remains of Altman’s desert?

    By Emma Cline

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  • What's Your Damage?
    What's Your Damage?

    On the queen bee of high school toxic-female-friendship films 

    By Sloane Crosley

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Author Reads

  • The Playlist: Morvern Callar's Walkman of the Soul
  • Alfonso Cuarón's Melodrama
  • Ship of Fools
  • The Color of Water
  • Power Dressing with Pam Grier
  • The Censored Cinema of Iran
  • Ryan Gosling's Scorpion Jacket
  • Two or Three Things I Do Know About Cassavetes
  • Jury Duty
  • Mrs. Robinson's Angst
  • Liminal Cinema: Alice Rohrwacher
  • Pulp Fiction's Battle Royale
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