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Literature & Culture

Haneke and the Technology of Intimacy

‘Happy End’ is the culmination of Haneke’s obsession with how technology mediates our desires.

Francey Russell

Race

‘Black Panther’ Is Not the Movie We Deserve

Black Panther, a movie unique for its black star power, depends on a shocking devaluation of black American men.

Christopher Lebron

Literature & Culture

Dulltopia

The monotony of slow cinema defamiliarizes our world and enables us to see it critically.

Mark Bould

Literature & Culture

The Obsessions of Hitchcock, Welles, and Kubrick

A new book takes on the titans of twentieth-century cinema, fetishes and all.

Jonathan Kirshner

Literature & Culture

Realization and Recognition

The art and life of John Fante.

Neil Gordon

Literature & Culture

An Honest Woman

Isabel Coixet's Learning to Drive

Alan A. Stone

Literature & Culture

Park that Lark

Michael Almereyda's Cymbeline

Alan A. Stone

Literature & Culture

Can She Act?

Olivier Assayas's Clouds of Sils Maria

Alan A. Stone

Literature & Culture

Lav Diaz's Quiet Storm

Lav Diaz at a screening in Bangkok in 2009. Image: wise_kwai Evolution of a Filipino Family

Adam Katzman

Literature & Culture

Decide for Yourself

Donald Rumsfeld in Errol Morris's most recent documentary, The Unknown Known (2014). Image

Randolph Lewis

Literature & Culture

The Ugly Truth

David Oyelowo, center, as Martin Luther King, Jr. in Ava DuVernay's

Alan A. Stone

Literature & Culture, War & Security

American Sniper: Patriotism Is Personal

Image: Warner Bros. Entertainment   “American Sniper is a film of soaring patriotism and an

Judith Levine

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