Essay

The Maiku Hama Trilogy

by Curtis Tsui

On the retro riffs and magnetic lead of Kaizo Hayashi’s newly restored cult trilogy.

by Keva York

On Libuše Jarcovjáková, the queer photographer drawn to the social fringes of Soviet Prague.

by Boris Barnet

Translated into English for the first time, a selection of the esteemed Soviet filmmaker’s devastatingly honest and bittersweet letters.

by Amalia Ulman

On Lucrecia Martel’s transfixing portrait of adolescent fervor.

by Isabella Trimboli

On Cate Shortland’s assured directorial debut on sexual awakening.

by KYK

On Henry Jaglom’s effervescent anti-rom-com.

by Elizabeth Purchell

On the AV dreams and celluloid nightmares of Hisayasu Satô’s Re-Wind.

by Sofia Bohdanowicz

A video essay ode to the inimitable feline screen star.

by Frank Yan

On Tsui Hark’s subversive reimagining of an immortal Chinese folk tale, starring Maggie Cheung as a serpent demon.

by Arta Barzanji

On two defining Iranian filmmakers, and two of their most enduring works.

by Andrea Torres

On the pulse of pleasure in Banmei Takahashi’s effervescent Pink drama.

by Genevieve Yue

On Max Ophuls’s first feature and the signature tragedies it set in motion.