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The Sundance-to-Oscar pipeline has been great for independent film directors—at least the male ones.

Yoko’s 80th birthday is a day to celebrate her art, music and activism.

Two brilliant nominees, The Gatekeepers and 5 Broken Cameras, along with other recent documentaries, have deepened our understanding of the conflict.

The Smithsonian’s show on the Civil War and American Art expresses a deep unease about the relationship between between art and history.

MoMA’s monumental exhibition recalls the time when abstraction affected people like love or revolution.

Steven Soderbergh’s Side Effects; Lynne Sach’s Your Day Is My Night

Robert Bresson’s The Devil, Probably; Maurice Pilat’s Police; Leo McCary’s My Son John.

A Russian novelist’s fight, in life and art, to see the world afresh in all its cruelty and splendor.

Amos Oz and Fania Oz-Salzberger’s Jews and Words.

The film’s torture scenes do not excuse or glorify torture; they do something worse: draw the audience into accommodating it.