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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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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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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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‘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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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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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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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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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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“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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Ridley Scott's Masterpiece 'Alien'
Nothing Is as Terrifying as the Fear of the Unknown.
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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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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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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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Cairo Without End
In his quiet film In the Last Days of the City, Tamer El Said brilliantly captures a struggle I’ve had for years: how to pin down what it is about Cairo that leaves us feeling as if we exist in a no man’s land, somewhere between past and present, constantly searching, never quite there. By Yasmine El Rashidi.
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The Handmaiden review – outrageous thriller drenched with eroticism
Park Chan-wook’s adaptation of Sarah Waters’ novel Fingersmith, relocated to 1930s Korea, is an erotic triumph – with a whiplash twist. By Peter Bradshaw.
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Guillermo del Toro’s “Pan’s Labyrinth”
A Richly Imagined, Dreamlike Voyage of Self-Discovery and Character Formation. By Guillermo Navarro.
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The Intrusion Artist
The director Robert Bresson used his camera to observe humans so nakedly that the resulting films can seem cruel. Yet Bresson’s gamble was to turn these acts of theft and violation into a way of conferring power on the models themselves. By Max Nelson.
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Cults, human sacrifice and pagan sex: how folk horror is flowering again in Brexit Britain
From Kill List to Blood on Satan’s Claw, celebrate May Day with a journey into the dark heart of the English countryside. By Michael Newton.
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$40,000-a-Night Escorts: Secrets of the Cannes Call Girls
A businessman – and Gadhafi associate – who was convicted in a 2007 prostitution ring bust reveals all the dirty secrets of how models (and even some Hollywood actresses) swarm the hotels and yacht parties during the fest: says one escort, it’s “the biggest payday of the year.” By Dana Kennedy. (May 17, 2013)
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From Basquiat to Pollock: Seven Seminal Artist Biopics
These compelling portraits of artistic genius are integral viewing for all art and film lovers. By Daisy Woodward.
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