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Jennifer Lopez in Hustlers (2019) | art by Brianna Ashby

Critics and fans have accurately described Hustlers as a bedazzled Recession-era period piece. But the movie is equally specific to our times, the first in Hollywood history to produce movie after movie about ordinary(ish) women doing crimes. Read More

No Man’s Land

Ethan Warren·

New Releases

It would be natural to assume it’s impossible to recreate Harold Pinter’s effects on-screen. What cinematic setting could ever replicate the feeling of an ordinary space that simultaneously exists in a howling metaphysical void? Read More

Jane Rudolph in Cat People (1942) | RKO Pictures

Night of the Living Night: The Absence of Image and the Image of Absence

Tyler Malone·

Extras

Terror is the true territory of the horror film. Without terror, the horror film is merely a slideshow of repulsive imagery—all shock and no shiver. Read More

Martin Scorsese's 'The Irishman' premiered at this year's NYFF | Netflix

Fran At The Festival: Dispatches From NYFF

Fran Hoepfner·

Festivals

Fran Hoepfner on The Irishman, Uncut Gems, Marriage Story, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Parasite, First Cow, and other highlights (and not so highlights) from the New York Film Festival. Read More

Short Film Spotlight: It’s Been Too Long

Ethan Warren·

Short Film Spotlight

Amber Schaefer’s It's Been Too Long is the erotic parody we need and deserve in 2019. Read More

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Elaine May in The Waverly Gallery | photo credit: Brigitte Lacombe

Kenneth Lonergan on The Genius of Elaine May

Chad Perman·

Interviews Issue 75: Elaine May

"Genius is a word that’s thrown around a lot, but I think whatever it means, if Elaine May is not a brilliant improviser, nobody is. If Elaine May is not a brilliant actress, nobody is. If she’s not a brilliant writer, nobody is. If she’s not a brilliant director, nobody is. So whatever that word means, you can apply it to her in four different categories at least, and probably more." Read More

The Great Celluloid North: BW/DR’s Post-Mortem from the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival

Charles Bramesco·

Festivals

Our humble festival correspondent on Uncut Gems, Honey Boy, The Laundromat, Waves, The Report, No. 7 Cherry Lane, and the second half of TIFF 2019. Read More

The Great Celluloid North: A Halftime Report from the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival

Charles Bramesco·

Festivals

I told the almost comically friendly customs agent that I’m in Canada for business and not pleasure, so in the interest of not getting apprehended by the mounties, my top priority remains the almighty cinema. Read More

Archival photo Nanfu Wang and her parents | One Child Nation | Amazon Studios

One Child Nation Directors Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang on Children, Choice, and the Chinese “Propaganda Machine”

Eileen G'Sell·

Interviews

"You know how, in therapy, you realize something was the cause of something else? This film was like natural therapy for me. I started thinking, 'What else do I remember about the one-child policy, and how did it affect me?'" Read More

Brad Pitt as Cliff Booth in ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD | artwork by Tony Stella

The Illustrated Manson

Ethan Warren·

New Releases

Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood, a melancholy elegy with a fairy tale at its core, is a work of surprises, from an unconventional structure to stylistic flourishes to a cartoonishly outrageous denouement. Read More

Lulu Wang on the set of THE FAREWELL (2019) | A24

‘You don’t get catharsis, you know?’: Lulu Wang on The Farewell

Zosha Millman·

Interviews

"Based on an actual lie.” That’s how Lulu Wang’s new film The Farewell starts out, before China-born, U.S.-raised Billi (Awkwafina) returns to Changchun as her family prepares to say goodbye to their matriarch Nai Nai, who’s been diagnosed with cancer. The one catch: Nai Nai doesn’t know she’s sick. Read More