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The Intellectual and Sociopolitical Exploitations of Yasuzô Masumura
By Jonathan Rosenbaum
A look at the films of iconoclastic Japanese director Yasuzô Masumura.
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I Did It My Way
By Vikram Murthi
Looking back at Repo Man, an evergreen middle-finger to all the ordinary fuckin’ people out there.
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Nuclear Punks Run Amok: Gakuryu Ishii’s Burst City
By Margaret Barton-Fumo
A near-perfect display of punk ethos.
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Kill Your Idols
By Luke Goodsell
A look at Out of the Blue, a film haunted by the ghosts of teen cinema’s bad girls and sad boys, and the punk bands that could’ve saved them.
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Payday
By Bruce Bennett
A history of the once nearly forgotten outlaw country masterpiece, and much else besides.
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Split Image
By Aliza Ma
With Center Stage, Stanley Kwan blends formal styles to tell the story of the tragic silent Shanghainese starlet Ruan Lingyu and redefines the biopic.
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For Bad Girls – Love, Doris
By Sam Bodrojan
An ode to the wildly prolific, unabashedly titillating goddess of rowdy cinema.
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Why Look at Cats?
By Isabel Ochoa Gold
A look into movies that star felines and the cultural space they have occupied over the last century.
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The Life of an Artist is Not For the Pusillanimous
By Toussaint Jeanlouis
Reacting to jazz-like lyricism of Bill Gunn’s Black Picture Show.
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Black Picture Show in Context
By Soyica Colbert
An examination of what Bill Gunn’s play meant at the time of its initial release, and how to understand both its recent incarnation and where it fits in the history of Black art.