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Futures and Pasts: Socrates
Rossellini’s one-of-a-kind approach to the costume drama, and his 1970 film on the last years of the Athenian truth-seeker.
Nick Pinkerton
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Futures and Pasts: Don’t Play with Fire
Foul times in the Fragrant Harbor, in Tsui Hark’s newly restored third feature.
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Futures and Pasts: Éric Rohmer’s Élisabeth
On the French New Wave legend’s life before cinema, and his newly translated first and only novel.
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Futures and Pasts: Dead Mountaineer’s Hotel
On Kromanov’s rug-pulling amalgam of whodunnit and science fiction, an enduring cult item and one of Estonian cinema’s towering peaks.
Interview
Lucrecia Martel
Talking with the doyenne of Argentine cinema about her new documentary, historical responsibility, and the actual use of tear gas.
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Futures and Pasts: We’ll Always Have Paris, aka Radley Metzger Goes Hardcore
On the sophisticatedly salacious pleasures of three newly restored, ’70s XXX classics-in-waiting.
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Futures and Pasts: Running on Empty
On Sidney Lumet’s tale of morally compromised counterculture veterans trying to keep a family together.
From the Magazine
Limelight: Ann Hui
On the long, tenacious career and lyrical films of the cinematic poet laureate of Hong Kong.
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Futures and Pasts: Perceval le Gallois
Considering the charming medieval anomaly that is Éric Rohmer’s Perceval le Gallois (1978).
Interview
Athina Rachel Tsangari, Caleb Landry Jones, & Sean Price Williams
An interview with the holy trinity of director, star, and cinematographer of Harvest.
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Futures and Pasts: Scattered Clouds
Considering Japanese master Mikio Naruse’s swan song.
Interview
Michael Koresky
An interview with the author of Sick and Dirty: Hollywood’s Gay Golden Age and the Making of Modern Queerness.