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Steve McQueen and the Human Body
Steve McQueen has made a career out of exploring the human body — its materiality, its limits, its politics — through the tools of cinema. …
The Duality of Rock Hudson
In his career’s final decade, Rock Hudson, not unlike a number of aging but venerated studio titans of his generation, found steady work on the …
Staff Picks: It’s a Family Affair
There’s no antidote for pre-holiday angst like watching movies about other families who are far more dysfunctional than your own! In anticipation of the many …
The Visuals of “Hero” Will Never Be Beat
Zhang Yimou has always had a thing for color. From the image of a crimson caravan bobbing through a field of grass in Red Sorghum to …
How Do Directors Follow Up Their Oscar-Winning Films?
In both 2014 and 2017 we were treated to two pairs of auteur directors fighting it out for Best Picture at the Academy Awards; in …
Weekend Movie Guide: November 9-11, 2018
Before we launch into this weekend’s new movies, we’d be remiss if we didn’t at least mention The Front Runner, which had a limited release …
Was 2018 the Return, or the Death, of Mid-Budget Movies?
When we look back on 2018, we might see it as the year the mid-budget movie died, or the time they made a Lady Gaga-anthem-sized …
Trailer Park Thursday: “Back Roads” and “Maine”
The Tribeca Film Festival, created in part by Robert De Niro while in a particularly “New York State of Mind,” has come to fill the …
Richard E. Grant Makes “Hudson Hawk” Worth Watching
I love early 90s cinema. It’s a side effect of being born in the early 80s and growing up with John Hughes movies and a …
Lucas Hedges is Having a Great Year
At only twenty-one, Lucas Hedges has already proven to be a versatile (and Oscar-nominated) actor, showing skill and craft far beyond what most veteran actors …
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