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Green Snake
On Tsui Hark’s subversive reimagining of an immortal Chinese folk tale, starring Maggie Cheung as a serpent demon.
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Travel Companions: Bahram Beyzaie & Amir Naderi
On two defining Iranian filmmakers, and two of their most enduring works.
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A New Love in Tokyo
On the pulse of pleasure in Banmei Takahashi’s effervescent Pink drama.
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The Company’s in Love
On Max Ophuls’s first feature and the signature tragedies it set in motion.
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Ice
The last gasp of revolution in Robert Kramer’s not-quite-agitprop thriller.
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A Girl is a Gun
On Luc Moullet’s beautifully perverse and eternally shapeshifting Western.
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Camera! Rosé! Action!
Translated into English for the first time by Ted Fendt—a chapter from the French New Wave filmmaker’s memoirs, detailing the making of his 1971 “Bouillabaisse Western” A Girl is a Gun.
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Memories of a Vietnamese Cinema
On the romance that shaped Vietnamese revolutionary cinema.
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Five Essential Lessons from Néstor Almendros
Encountering the master cinematographer through his own words.
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Like In A Mirror
A new translation of Victor Erice’s tribute to Nicholas Ray.
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I’m British But…
Revisiting Gurinder Chadha’s early exploration of Asian identity in Britain.
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Chang Chen
Six movie roles that made the quietly magnetic actor a global star.