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Dark Passages: The Devil in the Details
To make the performance of a tedious, exacting, time-consuming task riveting to watch, it is only necessary for the activity to be illegal… By Imogen Sara Smith.
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Touched by the Goddess
A recent film starring Dev Patel and Jeremy Irons depicts Srinivasa Ramanujan’s fantastically original mathematical achievements and tragically early death at 32. Number theorist and expert on Ramanujan’s work Krishnaswami Alladi reviews The Man Who Knew Infinity.
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Can’t Wait Forever
Matt Peterson and Malek Rasamny discuss their new film, The Native and the Refugee, which investigates how the spatial contexts of Native reservations in the U.S. and Palestinian refugee camps in the Middle East incubate resistance to settler colonialism. By Aviva Stahl.
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Ridley Scott's Masterpiece 'Alien'
Nothing Is as Terrifying as the Fear of the Unknown.
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“The Battle of Algiers” at 50: From 1960s Radicalism to the Classrooms of West Point
Madeleine Dobie considers what it is that draws national security agencies to “The Battle of Algiers.”
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The Childhood of a Leader review – stunning origins story for a future fascist
First-time director Brady Corbet’s story of a privileged, petulant 10-year-old fated to become a fascist dictator exerts a lethal grip. By Peter Bradshaw. (Aug. 18, 2016)
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Bond or Bourne: Normative vs neurotic imperialism
British liberal imperialism became normative to its age as its American successor is typically amnesiac and neurotic. By Hamid Dabashi.
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Kiarostami and The Purge
All of a sudden The Purge: Election Year became a stand-in for America’s violent, cynical, stupid cinema—the exact opposite of everything Kiarostami stood for and everything he achieved over four and a half decades of filmmaking in Iran and elsewhere. By A. S. Hamrah.
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Edgar Wright’s 1000 Favorite Movies
This list of personal favourites was assembled by myself and Edgar Wright in July 2016. Films are in chronological order. By Sam DiSalle.
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‘What I Couldn’t Say Myself’
Danny Lyon has spent much of his career taking intimate photographs of marginal, working-class, and outlaw communities. By Max Nelson.
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The enduring popularity of the Monkey King
How “Journey to the West” influenced 400 years of culture and entertainment. By Cassandra Khaw.
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An Amazon Without Certainty
It’s a story as old as Alexander von Humboldt: white explorer treks into the Amazon, becomes lost and disoriented, paints face with mud, eats beetles, and has visions of galaxies and exotic reptiles, before finally achieving enlightenment—or total madness. But Ciro Guerra’s Embrace of the Serpent is strange enough to resist the worst of the old clichés, which is to say it resists moral certainty. By Nathaniel Rich.
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Spirit Animals
From The Revenant through Jurassic Park and Godzilla, Darrell Hartman traces the evolving significance of megafauna.
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Thailand’s Genial Nightmares
Descriptions of Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s work slide inexorably into paradox: it is sincere and ironical, improvisational and elaborately structured, earthy and uncanny at the same time. His new film Cemetery of Splendor, in which a group of Thai soldiers have fallen mysteriously and, it seems, permanently asleep, the most nakedly political film of Weerasethakul’s career, is a gentle, open-hearted story of human connection, underlain at every moment by rage and dread.
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Why Is Everyone in China Flipping Out Over This Rom-Com About a Mermaid?
What is it about Stephen Chow’s ‘The Mermaid’ that makes it the highest-earning film of all time in China? By Anelise Chen.
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William Friedkin’s ‘Sorcerer’
Cautionary Tales Have Rarely Taken Such an Amazing Artistic Form
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Sita Sings the Blues (2008)
The greatest break-up story ever told. By Nina Paley.
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Hong Kong’s popular, lucrative horror movie about Beijing has disappeared from theaters
Despite selling more tickets on fewer screens than Star Wars. By Heather Timmons.
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How Wile E. Coyote Explains The World
A joke has structure. It has a central rule. Setup, punchline. The setup produces a tensed, expectant state; the punchline resolves the tension with a surprise. If the elements of the joke are not arranged into a setup and a punchline, it is not a joke. It is just a statement. By Albert Burneko.
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Werner Herzog Is Ready for the End of the World
The director on what it's like to be unplugged from the internet and why he would make an excellent survivalist.
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