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Float On, sensory deprivation, floaters, Restricted Environmental Stimulation

In the Tank

Is sensory deprivation an escape from or toward the fatigue and distractions of the digital life?

Neima Jahromi

The Childhood of Jesus explores the fictitious dimensions of a just and compassionate world.
Posted Sep 24 2013 - 6:12pm
Jason Oder’s Let the Fire Burn; Martha Shane and Lana Wilson’s After Tiller; Peter Morgan and Ron Howard’s Rush; anniversary wishes to Stuart Klawans from Rabbi Simcha Feffeferman
Posted Sep 24 2013 - 6:09pm
How a jazz artist’s relationship to black identity gave his music its stormy weather.
Posted Sep 17 2013 - 7:34pm

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Mohsen Makhmalbaf during the Vesoul International Asian Cinema Festival, 2009

An Iranian director’s ongoing meditations on the nature of illusion and reality, truth and consequences.

Steven Soderbergh as Fletcher Munson/Dr. Jeffrey Korchek, in Schizopolis

Hollywood’s wonkiest director hasn’t stopped working. He’s finding new problems to solve—and toying with us again.

George Packer

The Unwinding is a fine-grained account of economic collapse that runs aground on causeless abstractions.

Pop & Circumstance

Pop & Circumstance

Summer’s fall: White House Down
September 3, 2013 - 9:00 PM ET
Joshua Clover

The happy ending to Hollywood’s summer: not guy gets girl but guy gets job.

Pacific Rim: Chomsky versus Zizek
August 13, 2013 - 4:11 PM ET
Joshua Clover

An online dustup between two pop star penseurs shows them staggering through afterlives.

Leakonomics: Pirates and Snowden
July 16, 2013 - 6:39 PM ET
Joshua Clover

Bounties on the mutineers demonstrate the limits of transparency.

Shelf Life

Shelf Life

Robert Neer’s Napalm: An American Biography; Juliette Volcler’s Extremely Loud: Sound as a Weapon

Martín Adan’s The Cardboard House; José Manuel Prieto’s Encyclopedia of a Life in Russia

Two Lane Blacktop

Michael Cimino’s Heaven’s Gate, Monte Hellman’s Two-Lane Blacktop

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