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Film
Film news and analysis from The Nation
November 11, 2021
Joanna Hogg and the Art of Life
Her remarkable two-part film
The Souvenir
examines how an artist turns the fragments of their personal history into an enduring story.
Devika Girish
November 4, 2021
What “Passing” Can Still Teach Us About Identity
A film adaptation of Nella Larsen’s novel dramatizes the mercurial and sometimes dangerous consequences of a person's performance of self in the public.
Elias Rodriques
November 3, 2021
On Film, a Window Into Haiti
Gessica Généus discusses
Freda
, the first movie by a female Haitian director to be nominated for an award at Cannes.
Clair MacDougall
November 3, 2021
Why Mike Nichols Was the Egalitarian Auteur
Mark Harris’s biography of the filmmaker shows that one cannot be an auteur without some help.
Lindsay Zoladz
October 7, 2021
The Grotesque and Sublime Transformations of “Titane”
Julia Ducournau’s surreal horror film is a harrowing exploration of the body and technology.
Phoebe Chen
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August 24, 2021
Adam Curtis’s Modern Discontents
In his new eight-hour epic, the British filmmaker offers a globe-trotting chronicle of our times.
Kevin Lozano
August 5, 2021
“Zola” and the Limits of the Internet Movie
An adaptation of a viral Twitter thread only scratches the surface of how film storytelling might intersect with life online.
Erin Schwartz
August 4, 2021
Bourdain’s Wake
How to tell the story of Anthony Bourdain?
Jeet Heer
July 29, 2021
What the Harlem Cultural Festival Represented
Questlove’s debut as a director, the documentary
Summer of Soul
, revisits a musical event that encapsulated the energies of Harlem in the 1960s.
David Hajdu
July 27, 2021
Barry Jenkins’s American Saga
In
The Underground Railroad,
Jenkins focuses how people survived slavery rather than on its brutality.
Stephen Kearse
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