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Dividing Lines

By Ted Fendt

On the reception of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet’s early films in the English-speaking world.

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Matthew Barney’s OTTO Trilogy

By Maggie Nelson

An excerpt from Maggie Nelson’s essay “On Porousness, Perversity, and Pharmacopornographia: Matthew Barney’s OTTO Trilogy.”

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Back to Black

By Michael Koresky

On Karen Black’s landmark performance in Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean.

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The Shining

By Bret Easton Ellis

An excerpt from Bret Easton Ellis’s forthcoming novel The Shards.

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Things I Learned from Hou

By Kore-eda Hirokazu

An appreciation of Hou Hsiao-hsien.

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Catherine Breillat on Pier Paolo Pasolini

By Catherine Breillat

Catherine Breillat recalls her evolving relationship to Pier Paolo Pasolini.

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Making a Monster

By Daniel Bird, Serge Toubiana, and Pascal Bonitzer

An excerpt from a 1981 interview with Andrzej Żuławski published in Cahiers du Cinema.

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Of Walking in Ice

By Werner Herzog

An excerpt from Werner Herzog’s classic diary account of his three-week pilgrimage from Munich to Paris to visit a dying friend in 1974.

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Dutch Cinema from the ’50s to the early ’70s

By Jeremy Richey

On the golden age of Dutch filmmaking that paved the way for actress Sylvia Kristel.

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Nick Ray and the House of Images

By Serge Daney

An excerpt from the new collection of Serge Daney’s writing published by Semiotext(e), The Cinema House and the World.

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Walerian Borowczyk’s artwork for Blanche

By Walerian Borowczyk

Artist spotlight: Walerian Borowczyk.

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Anatomy of the Devil

By Walerian Borowczyk

A short story by Walerian Borowczyk, newly translated by Michael Levy.