Life of the mind: many of the films on view through the festival‘s virtual portal ranged from pallid to dismal, but Khalil ...

In Ang Lee’s films—subject of an upcoming retrospective at Asia Society in New York—what seems to be about culture is a condition of the family, and vice versa.

Look and see: a number of films this in year’s selection—including Atropia, The Stringer, and others—grappled with the ethics ...

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The groundswell of grief that followed David Lynch’s death on January 15 caught me off guard, as I suspect it did many others, in its sheer reach and intensity. For a few days, it seemed that everyone ...

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