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TIFF 2019: The Round-Up
Best-of-Fest: Collective (Alexander Nanau, Romania) Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Céline Sciamma, France) One Day in the Life of
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Conservative Pushback in Film Culture
The new issue of Cineaste opens with a hot mess of an editorial titled “Cancellation Culture.” (Here is the PDF
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FLEFF 2019
I have recently returned from Ithaca, New York, where I spent a few rewarding days at the Finger Lakes Environmental
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Manifesto for a New Cinephilia
I’ve written a manifesto titled “For a New Cinephilia” for the new issue of Film Quarterly. It’s part of a
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Recent Reads: Alisa Lebow, So Mayer, Leo Goldsmith, etc.
— This is absolutely invaluable: “The Radical Copyeditor’s Style Guide for Writing about Transgender People” by Alex Kapitan. — Margaret
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TIFF 2018: The Afrobubblegum of Wanuri Kahiu’s “Rafiki”
The Kenyan director Wanuri Kahiu broke into film culture in 2010 with a wonderful science-fiction short titled Pumzi. The 21-minute
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TIFF 2018: Astra Taylor’s “What is Democracy?”
Astra Taylor’s documentary What is Democracy?, which opens on January 16 at the IFC Center in New York City, promises
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2018: 10 Great Writers
This Happy New Year post is a way of thanking ten writers who gave me much reading pleasure and taught
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Time’s Up for the Male Canon
I have a piece at Film Quarterly, in the online column, Quorum. Here is an excerpt: What will it take
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TIFF 2018: The Round-Up
Best-of-Fest: What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire? (Roberto Minervini, USA) What is Democracy? (Astra Taylor, USA) Out