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A room without books is like a body without a soul, and the same is true of a city without an independent cinema. If New York…

One of my seminal movie experiences was a college class taught by Gilberto Perez, around 1977, in political cinema, focussing…

Michael Roemer’s second professional feature, “The Plot Against Harry,” from 1969, should have become an instant classic—of…

There are enough genres mashed up in Lou Ye’s 2000 film “Suzhou River” to fill a festival, and its complexity is far more than…

What is the opposite of a crowd-pleaser? A throng-botherer, perhaps, or a mass-baiter? Some such term is needed for the kinds…