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Cannes has traditionally opened with various eminences publicly hymning the glories of cinema, occasionally sounding a note of social responsibility—but without distressing the gowns-and-glamour ...

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Ryan Coogler’s Sinners, a singularly ambitious horror film set in 1930s Mississippi, is currently setting theaters ablaze (in an array of formats and aspect ratios to boot). The film stars Coogler ...

William Goldman famously summed up his 1983 memoir, Adventures in the Screen Trade, by proclaiming with a Socratic flourish that “nobody knows anything.” This phrase has since endured as shorthand for ...

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While the current vogue in the culture wars is for representation above all else, in the 1970s feminist artists and writers were consumed by how to reconfigure narrative entirely. From Laura Mulvey’s ...