Essay

Pale Flower: Any Number Can Lose

By Nicolas Rapold

On Masahiro Shinoda’s influential gambling film, a major win from the Japanese New Wave.

Essay

Take Care

By Nicolas Rapold

On Leandro Listorti’s Herbaria.

Essay

DuArt: The Young Brothers and Their Family of Filmmakers

By Nicolas Rapold

An oral history of the NYC indie institution DuArt.

Essay

No Fear, No Die

By Nicolas Rapold

On falling for Stewart Bird and Deborah Shaffer’s 1979 documentary The Wobblies.

Friends and Strangers

Interview

Ray and Alice Go Hiking

By Nicolas Rapold

An interview with Friends and Strangers director James Vaughan.

Only Yesterday

Essay

The World As It Is

By Nicolas Rapold

On the unsentimental melodramas of John M. Stahl.