There’s something far more animal than human about Orlok. “He must be the strangest and most hideous leading man in all cinema,” said the critic Kevin Jackson in his book Constellation of Genius, ...

Jaouad Bentama keeps apologizing for the heat. He’s invited me to look at new works in his studio in the basement of Mana ...

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It has been tempting to view the C.I.A. as omniscient. Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the Iraq War, in 2003, shows just how often the agency was flying blind.

The pioneer of parallel cinema & Indian New Wave, which showed new ways of seeing our fissured world & imagining women in a new light, passed away after a prolonged kidney ailment on December 23, 2024 ...