Ben Rivers’s latest Bogancloch—a continuation of the British filmmaker’s collaboration with a hermit—is notable for its ...

Inside out: this year’s edition was suffused with an uneasy mood, expressed by many of the standout selections, including ...

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Indonesian curator and artist Bunga Siagian had never seen Turang (1958), the acclaimed film by her father, Bachtiar Siagian, while growing up. She had never seen any of his films, in fact—she had ...

An example: a brilliant Brazilian director and friend, João Jardim, made a beautiful documentary in 2001 called Window of the Soul that he brought to me for the mix. The first scene is a close-up of a ...

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Video life: highlights of this year’s edition included films by Alex Ross Perry, Artemis Shaw and Prashanth Kamalakanthan, ...

I can’t begin to imagine what it would have been like to be on the ground at Sundance in the year 2025. But the disconnect between many of the movies in the lineup and the fact that the United States ...

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After the critical and commercial disappointment of Hulk (2003), Ang Lee’s melancholic take on the green Marvel monster, the director sank into a depression and nearly retired from filmmaking. To his ...