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By Thomas M. Puhr.

It would be all-too-easy to criticize Wilson for both his scattershot approach and seeming off-the-cuff attitude… but a mandala-like design ties everything into a cohesive whole.”

Dank water floods a gym locker room. A dog pukes from the window of a speeding car. A self-driving delivery robot carefully steers around a...

By Thomas Gladysz.

For decades, it’s been said G. W. Pabst cast Louise Brooks in Pandora’s Box after having seen her in A Girl in Every Port. It’s an assertion repeated so often it has become fact, part of the legend which surrounds not only the acclaimed German film, but also Brooks herself….”

On first glance, the asse...

By M. Sellers Johnson.

[The new 4k restoration of My Brother’s Wedding] catches me at a strange moment because I’m caught up and trying to get some things done, and they’re not working out quite as well as I’d love them to. But things sort of take their time, you know? Like with this film and people getting around to seeing it.”

—C...

By Yun-hua Chen.

I felt that my job was to interfere with that as little as possible.”

–Shuntaro Uchida

Ten-year-old Kozue (Karin) feels out of place at school. She doesn’t have any peer to talk to and likes tossing randomly procured objects into the school’s incinerator. The university student Jinta (Taiki Shinozuka) comes to the school t...

By Thomas M. Puhr.

By turns funny, subversive, and formally playful, they are lovely paeans to female friendship.”

A few years ago, I reconnected with a college friend on social media. Our online conversations were pleasant enough, but I felt a pang of anxiety when we set a date to meet in person. Sure, I reasoned, we were close as underg...