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When Agnès Varda died March 29, 2019, at the age of 90, cinema lost a titan. Varda’s first film, La Pointe Courte, (about an...

As you might guess by the title, "The Princess and the...

It was 1983 when British filmmaker Alex Cox turned in his first feature film to Universal Studios. That same week, Cox optioned the rights to one of his favorite science-fiction novels for a future project. The movie was Repo Man. The book was Harry Harrison’s Bill, ...

Celebrating Judy Garland’s centenary 

Spike Lee is many things; subtle is not one of them. In 1989 — with three movies under his belt — the Brooklyn-based producer/director exploded on to a grand stage with Do the Right Thing. The movie stirred the pot and caused a fair amount of controversy, but what ...

Human beings are creatures of sight. What we judge as real is commonly based on what we see and how we see, but there...

I’m interested in ways of looking, and trying to think of it in simple ways,” David Hockney says. “Everybody does look, it’s a question...

RBG, the latest documentary from Julie Cohen and Betsy West, opens with images of Washington D.C. accompanied by sound bites from conservative talk radio...

The infamous Beale Street belongs to the city of Memphis, Tennessee, but every city has a Beale Street. So claimed writer James Baldwin, born...

Has decency become a sin?” Ibrahima Dieng cries. On his knees, Ibrahima holds out his empty hands in mock offering. The world has stripped...

Two men wait outside a church. They are armed and tasked with an assassination mission. The mark approaches, and the men leap into action,...

What’s your level of interest here? It’s been 15 years and 30-plus features — not to mention TV and streaming series — since Iron...