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". the bull is at first, I don’t know, like an object, it is part of the show, but when it suddenly looks into the camera it becomes like a mirror.". Albert Serra and @Ela_Bittencourt discuss his latest AFTERNOONS OF SOLITUDE (now playing at @filmlinc.).

Arun A.K. (@Arunusual) writes on Omar Ahmed's comprehensive study of Indian Parallel Cinema, a filmmaking movement that overturned the industrial hegemony of Bombay, rejecting the orthodoxies of patriarchy, religion, and caste.

RT @JordanCronk: Talked to Alex Ross Perry about VIDEOHEAVEN, one of my favorite films of the year, for @mubinotebook. 📼 .

Sitting down with @JordanCronk, director Alex Ross Perry discusses plumbing the depths of 1980s and ’90s alternative culture in recent documentary side projects VIDEOHEAVEN and PAVEMENTS.

New York, through July 12: @MicroscopeEvent presents As I Said, a solo exhibition of works by feminist computer artist Copper Frances Giloth. Discover this week’s essential film finds in the latest Rushes.

Paul Attard explores the newly released collection of writing from rockstar academic Tom Gunning, a book encompassing 26 essays that represents "merely the visible shard of a vast iceberg of scholarship.".

". discussing movements and gestures and blocking together became a sort of shared language to find Ruth. We didn’t always have to psychologize. We talked about emotions, yes, but we would often come up with ideas just by talking about movement.". Director Sarah Friedland and

"Fernando Pessoa said it very well: 'My village is my world.'". Pierre Creton discusses his unique practice and body of work with Patrick Holzapfel.

RT @lawrencengarcia: For @mubinotebook, I wrote on Dumont - whom I used to struggle with until France (2021) opened up his work for me - wi….

Presented in partnership with @Filmadrid as part of "The Video Essay," Carlos Natálio and Francisco Dias's "O Gesto" explores the role of gesture in Pedro Costa's first feature BLOOD.

"A painting cannot be told. An image cannot be told. And cinema is images.". With the series "A Risky Life: Letters From Jean-Claude Rousseau" playing at @AnthologyFilm, revisit the singular filmmaker's 2019 conversation with Salvador Amores (@amoresslvdr.)

"Faced with the zany improbability of [Bruno] Dumont’s past decade, the present challenge is to articulate just what this evolution comprises. ". Following a distinct period in the director’s career, @lawrencengarcia reconsiders the cinema of Bruno Dumont.

A first teaser trailer for Yorgos Lanthimos's BUGONIA, starring Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons and in theaters this October.

Adam Nayman (@brofromanother) remembers .FIRST BLOOD and WEEKEND AT BERNIE'S director Ted Kotcheff, a journeyman who tailed hard-luck outsiders on their way out of hell.

"Here and elsewhere, [Mikio] Naruse’s films express deep ambivalence about the traditional ideals of Japanese womanhood: devotion, self-sacrifice, purity. They harbor, like Nakadai’s character, nostalgia for values lost amid a crass, money-grubbing modernity, but also recognize

RT @LeonardoGoi: An elder-care drama that refuses to paint dementia as an inexorable decline but treats it instead as a rebirth of sorts, F….

RT @js_film_nyc: "If this were a Hollywood movie, the outcome would be predictable, but Naruse has far less faith in the power of love to o….

Next in our annual series "The Video Essay," Oh Jin-woo takes inspiration from Simone Weil to present in montage the inescapable gravity of life Hong Sang-soo’s characters face, and the moments of grace that set them free.

In a new conversation with @LeonardoGoi, FAMILIAR TOUCH director Sarah Friedland and star Kathleen Chalfant discuss the collaborative way they crafted their protagonist, and how the film puts us in her perspective—and in her body.

"If this were a Hollywood movie, the outcome would be predictable, but Naruse has far less faith in the power of love to overcome personal failings.". Imogen Sara Smith considers the films of Mikio Naruse, the subject of a new retrospective at @metrograph.