Agnès Varda’s feminist, anti-establishment legacy, according to her daughter Rosalie
'She was more into humanity than being an intellectual.' Rosalie Varda on her mother's wit, wisdom, and legacy to celebrate the release of ‘Varda by...
Bang, bang: the contemporary politics of violence on screen
From ‘Joker’ to ‘Taxi Driver,’ ‘cultural critique’ was long used as the justification for onscreen violence by white men. Here are the filmmakers with a...
What is an ‘American film’? 6 outsider auteurs who held a mirror to our culture
From Vietnam to mass incarceration, foreign and immigrant-directed films captured American identity better than ‘Forrest Gump.’
Theresa Chromati’s technicolor portraits of women being as loud as they want
The artist brings thunder and dazzling vortexes of color to Kravets Wehby Gallery.
The revolution will be televised? Kim Kardashian, Elizabeth Gilbert, and criminal injustice as entertainment
As Hollywood attempts to illuminate cracks in the criminal justice system, it must also dismantle the dangerous racial paradigms of criminality and virtue.
5 Agnès Varda films that taught us how to be vulnerable
Document remembers the vulnerable tenor of Varda’s oeuvre—and the 5 films that it is best embodied by.
Revisiting Godard’s ‘Tout Va Bien,’ a manifesto for post-1968 class struggle
Starring a newly radicalized Jane Fonda, Jean-Luc Godard’s masterpiece of radical cinema documented a workers strike at a French sausage factory, and revealed the stratification...
