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“A Meditation on the Stigmas of Colonization”: Mati Diop on Dahomey

A man raises his hand at a group meeting.Dahomey

Mati Diop likes summoning spirits. In 2019’s Cannes-premiering Atlantics, the ghosts of young Senegalese men lost in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Dakar come back to haunt people in their bid to demand what is rightfully theirs. In…  Read more

By Dec 9, 2024

“A Nihilist Western”: Athina Rachel Tsangari on Harvest

Peasant villagers surround a gigantic threshing wheel as a fire burns in the background.Harvest

It’s been nearly a decade since Athina Rachel Tsangari, the idiosyncratic Greek filmmaker who’s never one to repeat herself, has graced us with a new film. Tsangari is always looking for a new challenge: from the improvisational, genre-bending desolateness of…  Read more

By Oct 30, 2024

“I’ve Got My Finger on the Zeitgeist”: Matt Farley on Local Legends: Bloodbath

Matt Farley in Local Legends: Bloodbath

Several years ago on my birthday, I woke to a text from a friend: a link to “The Emily Poop Song”. For a minute and twenty-one seconds, I listened to what the album title described as “The Odd Man Who…  Read more

By Oct 15, 2024

“North Dakota is Trump Country Today”: John Hanson and Rob Nilsson on the 4K Restoration of Northern Lights

Northern Lights

It would be easy to call 1979 a red letter Cannes for New Hollywood: Apocalypse Now got Francis Ford Coppola his second Palme d’Or (split with Volker Schlöndorff for The Tin Drum), Terrence Malick received Best Director for Days of…  Read more

By Oct 2, 2024


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