In Sierra Pettengill’s new documentary ‘Riotsville, U.S.A.,’ a fake town reveals real problems
Designed to train cops to quell civil unrest, the city was a reflection of our national ideals, and an impetus for internal state violence
Dispatches from Eileen Myles, the greatest president we never had
The poet on writing to balance their reality, the toxicity of American 'freedom,' and finally getting into Borges
Watching ‘Nunsploitation’ films in the age of anxiety and isolation
50 years after Anna Karina joined a convent, nun movies are a study in feminism for our increasingly cloistered world.
A loner’s guide to the most underrated Valentine’s Day movies
10 film and snack pairings to propel you through Valentine’s day.
The promise of ‘Parasite’ and the lingering, toxic effects of Hollywood’s monopoly on taste
The film's meteoric rise is a hopeful sign of change, but ‘international’ film designations have locked non-American films in an unnecessary paradox.
Class rules everything around us: a primer in Greta Gerwig’s feminist economics
What the Oscar-nominated filmmaker understands about privilege, capitalism, and artistic compromise.
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...
