Anna Shechtman

Anora’s Honor

The title character in Sean Baker’s new film is sharp-tongued and invulnerable—until a marriage plot catches up with her.

Managing Monstrosity

Hirokazu Kore-eda’s new film suggests how matter-of-factly adults force queer children to hide their difference. 

The Jargonauts

In their films and writings, Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen made a political project out of studying meanings and signs. 

The Art of Feminine Injury and Excess

“I’m clearly invested in recovering forms of labor that, precisely because they have historically been performed by women, aren’t readily legible as work.”

Wages for Housewives

The Real Housewives’ work is to produce drama, and to keep their jobs they must be prolific.

Eraser Marks

In Claire Denis’s two latest films, white women come unmoored from the historical crises around them.

Crimes Against Humanity

The precondition for making it with anyone in David Cronenberg’s cinema is making it new.