Matías Piñeiro’s You Burn Me and Jem Cohen's Little, Big, and Far are both richly attuned to the surfaces of things ...

As told to Manu Yáñez Murillo. This is an extended version of an article that appears the May-June issue of Film Comment. I first knew about Raúl Ruiz through my father, Luis Alarcón, who was a ...

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The films I saw at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival offered an array of welcome surprises. Given the brutalities that have beset the world since the festival’s previous edition, Hard ...

One imagines James Baldwin would have had none of that. In his most sustained commentary on cinema, the 1976 book-length essay The Devil Finds Work, he gives voice to the suspicion and anger that many ...

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Early in her 2019 essay film, Letter to a Friend, Palestinian artist Emily Jacir cuts from journalistic footage of the Israeli military firing tear gas onto her street in Bethlehem to a video she ...

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