March 2013
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Tales of Mafrouza
Emmanuelle Demoris's epic collection of intimate stories
by Aaron Cutler posted March 6, 2013
January 2013
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Then Again
Philip Scheffner's Revision and the world beyond the window
by Colin Beckett posted January 11, 2013
June 2012
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Personal Effects
Ed Pincus on his magnum opus Diaries (1971-1976)
by Scott MacDonald posted June 21, 2012
April 2012
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The World Viewed, Part 2
The globe-spanning, category-defying works of Michael Glawogger
by Olaf Möller posted April 18, 2012
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The World Viewed, Part 1
The globe-spanning, category-defying works of Michael Glawogger
by Olaf Möller posted April 17, 2012
March 2012
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Signs in Rotation
This Is Not a Film: prisoner's diary, aesthetic experiment, and unfinished story
by Aaron Cutler and Mariana Shellard posted March 5, 2012
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Cultural Guerrillas
The fundamental questions of a cinema of intervention
by Nicole Brenez and Philippe Grandrieux posted March 1, 2012
February 2012
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Archival Trouble
The fiction-free science fiction of Adam Curtis
by Michael Atkinson posted February 16, 2012
January 2012
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Space Exploration
Patrick Keiller on landscape cinema and the problem of dwelling
by Leo Goldsmith posted January 18, 2012
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Family Viewing
Gastón Solnicki's Papirosen and the reinvention of the home movie
by Mark Peranson posted January 11, 2012
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Darkness Doubled
Grandrieux, Adachi, and documentary portraiture as a meeting of minds
by Leo Goldsmith posted January 7, 2012
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Island Time
The memory project of Gonçalo Tocha's It's the Earth Not the Moon
by R. Emmet Sweeney posted January 7, 2012
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Going the Distance
An interview with the Armenian master Artavazd Peleshian
by Scott MacDonald posted January 6, 2012
December 2011
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Moments of 2011, Part 2
Our contributors and colleagues pick the past year's moving image highlights
by Various Writers posted December 30, 2011
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Moments of 2011, Part 1
Our contributors and colleagues pick the past year's moving image highlights
by Various Writers posted December 30, 2011
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Obscure Objects of Desire
The contradictions of Cuba in the work of Nicolás Guillén Landrián
by Chris Fujiwara posted December 19, 2011
September 2011
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History Will Be Televised
Andrei Ujica's trilogy on power, media, and the end of communism
by Leo Goldsmith posted September 29, 2011
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How Was Ceausescu Possible?
The tale of Romania's grand national deception
by Vladimir Tismaneanu posted September 29, 2011
August 2011
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Recycling Programs
Rick Prelinger and the meta-archival documentary
by Leo Goldsmith posted August 17, 2011
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The Two Horizons
What Avatar and Pedro Costa can tell us about narrative cinema today
by Tom McCormack posted August 9, 2011
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The Art of Testimony
Standing up for talking heads
by Richard Porton posted August 3, 2011
June 2011
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Beats, Rhymes, and Film
A brief history of the hip-hop movie
by Saul Austerlitz posted June 30, 2011
May 2011
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Disquieting Objects
The radical austerity of António Reis and Margarida Cordeiro
by Gabe Klinger posted May 3, 2011
April 2011
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Celluloid Manifesto
Reading images and emblems in Dziga Vertov's films
by Yuri Tsivian posted April 12, 2011
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Sea Change
The displacements of The Forgotten Space
by Jonathan Rosenbaum posted April 8, 2011
January 2011
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Moments of 2010
Our contributors and colleagues pick the past year's moving image highlights
by Various Writers posted January 1, 2011
September 2010
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Of Time and the City
Jia Zhangke's I Wish I Knew, a remembrance of Shanghai past
by Shelly Kraicer posted September 14, 2010
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Empire of Signs
Get Out of the Car and the living ruins of Thom Andersen's Los Angeles
by Genevieve Yue posted September 8, 2010
April 2010
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Master Builders
How documentarians D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus find drama
by David Schwartz posted April 26, 2010
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Natural Wonders
The technology of Life and the challenge of showing the world as it is
by Chris Wisniewski posted April 16, 2010
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The Obligations of History
Accuracy versus irony in depictions of the Holocaust
by Anne Nelson posted April 1, 2010
March 2010
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Poetic License
The fictions and realities of Abbas Kiarostami's boundary-breaking Close-Up
by Joshua Land posted March 24, 2010
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Intersecting Paths
How cinema has confronted the tragedy of the 20th century
by Jean-Michel Frodon posted March 22, 2010
February 2010
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Rearranging the Deckchairs
From newsreels to stereoscopic spectacles: a century of Titanic movies
by Leah Churner posted February 24, 2010
November 2009
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Painting With Light
The Bauhaus influence on the cinematic avant-garde
by Gregory Zinman posted November 19, 2009
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The Unknown Statue
A suppressed masterpiece by Alain Resnais and Chris Marker
by Jonathan Rosenbaum posted November 6, 2009
October 2009
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The Nightwatchman
Peter Greenaway on Rembrandt, the art of VJing, and the death of cinema
by Leo Goldsmith posted October 15, 2009
February 2009
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Making The Wrestler Real
Cinematographer Maryse Alberti on creating a documentary-like fiction
by David Schwartz posted February 13, 2009
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Revolutionary Mode
Considering the anarchist cinema of the 21st century
by Richard Porton posted February 10, 2009
January 2009
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Independent America, 1978-1988
Myths of the new narrative (and a few counter-suggestions)
by Jonathan Rosenbaum posted January 26, 2009
September 2008
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Migrating Forms
Displacement and delirium at the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar
by Dennis Lim posted September 13, 2008
August 2008
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Truer Than Fiction
Frederick Wiseman on the connections between drama and documentary
by Nicolas Rapold posted August 21, 2008
July 2008
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Director Without Borders
The restless innovations of independent pioneer Shirley Clarke
by David Cairns posted July 14, 2008
June 2008
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What Lies Beneath
The quixotic quests of Peter Lynch, from archeology to zoology
by Adam Nayman posted June 19, 2008
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Anna in Wonderland
A documentary short evokes the great blind spot of 1968
by Joshua Clover posted June 4, 2008
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Vietnam in Fragments
William Klein in 1967-'68: A radical re-evaluation
by Jonathan Rosenbaum posted June 4, 2008
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Outskirts of the Kingdom
Werner Herzog bears witness to the life beyond moviemaking
by Michael Atkinson posted June 4, 2008
