Film & Television

The Militant Film of the PLO

The Palestine Film Unit emerged in the late 1960s with the aim of situating Palestine in the global anti-colonial struggle.

October 17, 2020

Shirley Clarke’s Camera

Portrait of Jason is avant-garde in that filmmaker Shirley Clarke offers no proxy for the exploitative filmmaker, but the enduring question is whether Clarke was intentionally damning herself.

October 10, 2020

Self-Made Men

October 22, 2020 issue

A Very American Zombie Virus

What makes Blood Quantum, an old-school zombie film, a credit to its genre is the way it honors indigenous filmmaking.

September 5, 2020

Films to Stream

More virtual summer is provided by the Criterion Channel, which is streaming its comprehensive collection of Olympic films from Stockholm 1912 to London 2012.

August 11, 2020

A Horse’s Remorse

The most accurate portrait of contemporary malaise might be a cartoon that stars an asshole sublebrity horse.

August 20, 2020 issue

Millennials & ‘Normal People’

The series portrays states of mind much better than the novel does. Rooney is not likely to hear from viewers that “your book was better,” at least not very often or accurately, but she also may not care a whit.

July 15, 2020

The Films of Women’s Liberation

An exceptional series, “Tell Me: Women Filmmakers, Women’s Stories,” is an occasion to reconsider the ranging paths of feminist media production stoked by women’s liberation in the early 1970s.

June 27, 2020

'Cane River' and the Black Outdoors

Cane River follows the ups and downs of a conventional romance’s plot of courtship, but the major conflict is the slow but powerful tick of history.

June 20, 2020

‘Ghosts of Sugar Land’: A Journey of Loss

Mark’s isolation is distinct from that of his friends, but the subject of Bassam Tariq’s Ghosts of Sugar Land is as much the emotional losses suffered by Muslim American men as it is their political alienation from the state.

June 17, 2020