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Anatomy of the Devil
By Walerian Borowczyk
A short story by Walerian Borowczyk, newly translated by Michael Levy.
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Objects of Beauty
By Daniel Bird
Fine art, arthouse, and grindhouse collide in the work of Polish director Walerian Borowczyk.
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For Snow Queens
By Darryl Pinckney
An excerpt from Darryl Pinckney's essay, looking back on the '60s jazz romance Paris Blues.
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The Sadean Cinema
By Gary Indiana
An excerpt from Gary Indiana's forthcoming essay collection Fire Season, which looks at Salò, the last film made by Pier Paolo Pasolini.
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The Confrontation
By J. Hoberman
On the Hungarian master Miklós Jancsó’s most controversial film.
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Is It a Breakthrough? (The Modernists of Japanese Film)
By Nagisa Ōshima
Nagisa Ōshima’s 1958 assessment of the rebellious crop of filmmakers then-emerging in Japan—including one Yasuzô Masumura.
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Cinema 16
By Metrograph
a sampling of Cinema 16 membership applications signed by certain noteworthies, some perhaps predictable (Sontag), some unexpected (William F. Buckley, Jr.?)
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The Films of Doris Wishman
By Peggy Ahwesh
The American experimental filmmaker and video artist Peggy Ahwesh’s appropriately low-budget ’zine The Films of Doris Wishman was originally published in 1995. Copies of the reprint published in 2019 by Light Industry and Inpatient Press are currently for sale in the Metrograph Bookstore at 7 Ludlow.
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Paul Thomas Anderson: Masterworks
By Adam Nayman
In his new book, the critic examines Phantom Thread ’s luxurious, intricate weave of contradictions as part of a critical study of its subject’s overall body of work.
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Up and Down the Ladder: Excerpt from an Unpublished Manuscript c. 1933
By Francis Ford
In an excerpt from his unpublished memoir about his time in Hollywood, actor Francis Ford describes working in early cinema, a period when audiences hadn’t fully grasped the differences between screen and reality.