Screen time: incarcerated writer Sara Kielly offers a snapshot of a weekend’s worth of movie-watching at New York State’s Bedford Hills Correctional Facility ...

Radical specters: the cinema has found a rich repository of inspiration, images, and ideas in the life and work of the anti-colonial writer and revolutionary ...

It’s an industry truism that if you want to see the best films at a festival, you watch the old ones. Not because films were ...

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“The guy practically lives on a Clue board,” grumbles a cop (Lakeith Stanfield) early in Rian Johnson’s Knives Out. He’s talking about Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer), a renowned mystery author ...

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The films of Jacques Rozier, who died last year at the age of 96, understand the pleasures of impulsive behavior—that awfully nice buzz of winging it. Born in Paris in 1926, the French director was a ...