…a trash-littered desert, past a sign informing us that the state of Texas ends here. In this near-future, America doesn’t bother to imprison its criminals, but instead exiles them from…
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Review: The Public Theater takes a joyous, bare bones Twelfth Night on the road
The Public Theater Mobile Unit brings Shakespeare’s farcical romance of mistaken identities, Twelfth Night, to prisons, community centers, and more in New York State. Photo by Joan Marcus The Public…
‘No desire if it’s not forbidden’: Dread, eroticism, and text messaging in Personal Shopper
By using text messaging as a source of terror that morphs into eroticism, Personal Shopper acknowledges and subverts horror traditions. This is an excerpt of the essay which appears in…
Director Ramona Diaz talks Motherland and life in the maternity ward
…women from intake to discharge as they go through giving birth and taking care of their newborns. Along the way, we learn about their lives, their culture, and the state…
Québecois writer-director Anne Émond talks Nelly
…Nelly Arcand (Mylène MacKay), Nelly is a gorgeous, tactile, stylized film about a woman who was in a constant state of performance, obsessed with how people saw her. She started…
Interview: Tarsem Singh on the 4K restoration of The Fall
…some critics didn’t like it because it was in a long state, [so I] recut the film. I took out a minute and 40 seconds. One of those scenes should…