To every aspiring, established, even failed artist, the world is a mystery: a panoramic playground populated with playthings they can liberally enjoy, experiment with, or…
You’re occasionally forgetting words for now, but gradually your memory will worsen. At first you won’t recall nouns, then verbs. You know verbs, right? Of…
Parker Tyler, eclectic film critic and champion of the early American avant-garde cinema, wrote in Underground Film, his critical history of the movement published in…
The sun shines through a windshield. We see a blue sky speckled with blinding white clouds. If heaven exists, and it’s up there, it doesn’t…
Across 30 years and seven films, Lee Chang-dong has told stories about a diverse array of people, from the gangsters in Green Fish (1997), to…
Two years after announcing himself to the film world with Green Fish, a noir that used the genre’s bleak markers to scaffold the erasure of…
A friend once admitted to having consumed Wonka (2023) on his cellphone mid-flight, in 10-minute increments between naps, “the way Scorsese intended.” The admission is,…
Breathing in Angela Schanelec’s world may be one of the most ineffable experiences still available to us in contemporary cinema: the sensation of drifting among…
MoMA’s screening series “Long Live the Underground!” is a celebration in honor of two esteemed New York institutions. The Film-Makers’ Cooperative, founded in 1961, was…
A young woman walks through a field of white flowers, suspended for a moment with neither origin nor destination, seemingly fallen to earth in Carlos…
Under the aegis of the recently formed specialty label Clockwork, Warner Bros. Pictures is finally releasing a full restoration of Ken Russell’s The Devils in…
The thematic programs in MoMA’s retrospective commemorating the Film-Makers’ Cooperative and Millennium Film Workshop are generally grouped around certain political (“Make Love Not War”), poetic…
The United States of America is a drag queen. Drunk, dressed in her shiniest finery, and thickly rouged, the American empire according to Jack Smith…
My prewar apartment building in Queens has a mind of its own when it comes to temperature regulation. As another nor’easter batters the city, you…
A secret screening is always exciting. As part of Muscle Distribution’s recent Musclefest, a weekend of queer and transgressive film screenings at The Roxy Cinema…
All you need before attending Muscle Distribution’s Musclefest, a four-night screening series at the Roxy Cinema in mid-September, is a general belief that we don’t…
Before beginning production on Rope (1948), Alfred Hitchcock invited screenwriter Arthur Laurents to dinner with his wife Alma. The film’s star, Farley Granger, with whom…
It’s been 30 years since we lost Jon Jost. One shouldn’t worry: the American director is still alive and well, living, working, painting, traveling, and…
i. Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy It was Thymoetes, erstwhile soothsayer, who first took to that almighty horse. Hooves aloft, eyes heavenward,…
On August 11, 1994, major league baseball stopped. The scores on the big beaming boards standing above the outfield wall remained blank, robbed of their…
Back when labels were willing to spend on them, music videos served as a legitimate pipeline for visual artists, places for them to cut their…