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

"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

Jessie Barr and Lena Hudson in 'Too Long at the Fair' (2018)

Short Film Spotlight: Too Long at the Fair

Ethan Warren·

Short Film Spotlight

The Chekhovian ideal is embodied perfectly by Too Long at the Fair, a short film that surveys the vast spectrum of human experience—from frustration to joy, hedonism to shame, regret to awestruck nostalgia—and synthesizes the whole mess into just under 15 minutes of precise and specific storytelling. Read More

You Must Accept This Also: Where Society Fails in The Terror

Zosha Millman·

Extras

Although The Terror frequently builds itself around the isolation of its characters, with wide shots of lithic tundras stretching as far as the eye can see, it’s so often about their connection too. Read More

Room 140 | In 'Room 140 | Priscilla González Sainz

Short Film Spotlight: Room 140

Ethan Warren·

Short Film Spotlight

In Room 140, director Priscilla González Sainz supports her subjects with an unobtrusive and subtly compassionate eye, creating a vital work of art and an essential activist document. Read More

Holly Hunter in BROADCAST NEWS | art by Brianna Ashby

If I Were the Devil, You’d Be the Only One I Would Tell

Kellie Herson·

Extras

Broadcast News presents adulthood as an exercise in weathering the relentless sensation of being not-quite-enough and not-quite-right. Read More

Short Film Spotlight: Jukai

Ethan Warren·

Short Film Spotlight

In just under ten minutes of wordless story, Gabrielle Lissot’s Jukai shows us how our hardest-won lessons can become beams of light to illuminate the path forward for one another, and how even as the threads of our trauma form a tangle of sorrow, it’s a tangle that can be organized and reframed into our personal narrative, a story we can make use of to shelter and guide those that come after us. Read More

All the President's Men (1976) | Warner Bros.

The Truth Hurts

Sara Black McCulloch·

Extras

On The Candidate, All the President's Men, The Post, and Vice. Read More