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The Afterlives of the “Free State of Jones”
Susan Gillman on Gary Ross's "Free State of Jones" and the legacy of Newton Knight.
Film
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers
Dear Hollywood (White) People: Let Rumi Be Brown
Who should Hollywood cast to play Rumi? One hint: Not Leonardo DiCaprio.
The Ark Sinks: Alexander Sokurov’s “Francofonia”
The Ark Sinks: Alexander Sokurov’s Francofonia
Woman With a Movie Camera: The Art of Not Looking Away in Kirsten Johnson’s “Cameraperson”
Kirsten Johnson operates both in front of and behind the camera in "Cameraperson."
Nostalgia Without Sentimentality
An interview with English screenwriter and director Terence Davies on his new film "Sunset Song", adapted from Lewis Grassic Gibbon's classic novel.
Lobster in Purgatory
On the irresolutions of Yorgos Lanthimos's "The Lobster".
The Absurdity of Obscenity
Jeremy Geltzer's "Dirty Words and Filthy Pictures" looks at the salacious movies that stretched the First Amendment and the censors that stifled them.
Russian Hardcore and the American Henry
In "Hardcore Henry", the juncture where Russian and American imaginations come together, it seems, is in gleeful misogyny.
The Dawn of “Just Me”: Zack Snyder’s Neoliberal Superheroes
On Zack Snyder's bookshelf, Superman comics and "The Fountainhead" sit side by side.
[Insert Penis Pun Here]: Anthony Weiner and the Great American Spectacle
As "Weiner" shows, American politics today — and our relationship to it — is entirely mediated by images (dick pics and all).
Bros in Paradise: Richard Linklater’s “Everybody Wants Some!!”
Everybody Wants Some!! is college party after college party, in a loosely spun countdown to the first day of class. This is Texas in 1980.
After Culture Shock: The Legacy of Robert Mapplethorpe
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