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In her introduction to A Year in the Dark: Journal of a Film Critic, 1968–69, a collection of her reviews from her fourteen-month stint as... → Read More
In one of her first onscreen appearances, Teri Garr’s name appears nowhere in the credits, but you can’t miss her. With a sweatshirt emblazoned with... → Read More
Thirty years ago, the lives of gay luminaries were rarely the subject of feature films. Among the first of the LGBT biopics, Stephen Frears’s astute... → Read More
With just two features to date, Eliza Hittman has emerged as the finest chronicler of sexual awakening in deepest Brooklyn. In her first film, 2013’s... → Read More
Often populated with voluptuaries, the films of Bertrand Bonello unerringly distill mood and milieu. In his heady, sinuous biopic Saint Laurent (2014), for example, Bonello... → Read More
A pleasingly discursive road movie for our geosocial age, writer-director Jérôme Reybaud’s debut narrative feature navigates la France profonde with the help of Grindr.... → Read More
Sometimes the best counterprogramming happens forty years after the fact. The Film Society’s genre-spanning, globetrotting (though mostly Anglophone) series “ ’77” surveys the cinema that... → Read More
Native Angeleno and besotted partisan of her hometown, the writer and polymath of pleasure Eve Babitz has often been defined by what she isn’t. She... → Read More
Jean-Luc Godard’s last completed film to date, from 2014, is called Goodbye to Language. But he began issuing his farewell forty-plus years earlier. The rarely... → Read More
Truth in advertising: Girls trip hard during their New Orleans getaway in Girls Trip, which maybe doesn’t need that possessive apostrophe after all. Malcolm D.... → Read More
In the heady, inventive cinema of Yvonne Rainer, melodrama isn’t just mined but stripped bare → Read More
It was a French gay male neurasthenic, nearly a century ago, who perhaps best expressed the particular paradox of lesbian recognition: “The daughters of Gomorrah... → Read More
The director's latest soars with shape-shifting delights → Read More
This week, a repertory series at Anthology and a newly restored rarity from 1969 at the Quad demonstrate, long before it was fashionable to do... → Read More
In a fascinating Dietrich documentary, the star explodes → Read More
Wonder Woman emerges to save the world but risks losing herself → Read More
The tagline for David Lynch’s Inland Empire (2006), which he has avowed is his final feature-length film, is a four-word fragment: “a woman in trouble.”... → Read More
Disco isn't dead and never has been — not even the mass psychosis evinced during the grotesque spectacle known as "Disco Demolition Night," held in... → Read More
A comedy, and also a tragedy, of remarriage — without couples counseling or divorce — writer-director Azazel Jacobs's The Lovers revitalizes its genre with a piquant premise: What happens when long-wedded spouses, each with a romantic partner outside their dormant dyad, find the spark reignited — a combustion that results... → Read More
When the Quad reopened on April 14, it semi-scandalously kicked off its repertory programming with the films of Lina Wertmüller, who indisputably ranks... → Read More