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Arts in Society, Race

Aretha Franklin’s Soul

‘Amazing Grace,’ the long-lost film of Franklin’s gospel album, offers a lesson in the deep connections between gospel and soul music.

Ed Pavlić

Reading Lists

Our Best Film Writing For Oscars Weekend

Lars von Trier. Stanley Kubrick. Michael Haneke. 

Rosie Gillies, Boston Review

Arts in Society

Monsters vs. Empire

Trump’s Space Force is a bad reboot of the old imperial fantasy of control from above.

Mark Bould

Arts in Society, Race

Sorry, Not Sorry

Boots Riley's new film roasts racial capitalism and issues an unapologetic call for revolution.

Robin D. G. Kelley

Politics

Errol Morris on Steve Bannon’s Dangerous ‘Dharma’

Morris on his new film and what he thinks of the man who likened himself to Darth Vader and Satan.

Errol Morris, Deborah Chasman

Arts in Society

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

Arts in Society

Dulltopia

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

Mark Bould

Arts in Society

The Obsessions of Hitchcock, Welles, and Kubrick

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

Jonathan Kirshner

Arts in Society

Realization and Recognition

The art and life of John Fante.

Neil Gordon

Arts in Society

An Honest Woman

Isabel Coixet's Learning to Drive

Alan A. Stone

Arts in Society

Park that Lark

Michael Almereyda's Cymbeline

Alan A. Stone

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