>"From Tom Hanks at Los Angeles' new film museum, via Bali, where we meet a young climate change activist, and Paris for the _...Read More_

"American art-house cinema mistakes the film’s glamour and nostalgia for originality, leaving better movies unavailable."

"Introducing our new biweekly column about culture"

How the myth of the genius director has erased the careers of some very talented women, and why it’s time for the “auteur” to be tossed out entirely.

"rather than following Charles Baudelaire’s exhortation to 'wed the crowd,' he—and it usually is a 'he'—prefers to assail it, antagonize it, and molest it." This line will likely make me laugh until the end of time. Holy shit man, what a _...Read More_

The unlikely birthplace of cinema [http://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20210514-brighton-the-birthplace-of-the-first-modern-film](http://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20210514-brighton-the-birthplace-of-the-first-modern-film)

>"With preventable fires and flooding destroying many of Brazil's cultural institutions, what's at stake for the country's most _...Read More_

Coco Klockner unpacks the recent TikTok trend of "Main Character Energy" "Main character energy is not a matter of being ‘individualistic’ or singular but rather of being extremely legible"

"From Kids to his new film The Beach Bum, Harmony Korine has continually revolutionized the art of cinema. In a wide-ranging discussion with _...Read More_

>"For k-punk 2021 moves online for its fifth incarnation, inviting five artists to respond to the themes and provocations of Fisher's final lectures. The event invites people to listen together into the night, sharing time when they _...Read More_

“About Some Meaningless Events,” rediscovered four decades after it was banned, is a still-daring blend of artistic imagination and social confrontation."

>"David Fincher spoke with The Atlantic about his new Netflix film, Mank, and his theory of moviemaking after 30 years in Hollywood."

“Blending wry comedy with moments of pathos, Andersson’s film builds up a portrait of lives past and present wishing to find meaning in the world and to seek that most elusive of things: happiness. What’s so extraordinary about Andersson’s _...Read More_