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Best Movies of 2018
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Best Movies of 2018

by Double Exposure on Feb 8, 2019 • No Comments
As per tradition, Double Exposure took an extra month to catch up on all the best movies that came out last year, but our hotly anticipated list is finally here! In addition to contributing the individual top 10s from which we built our top 15, our staff has also written a little...
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Women Reply
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Women Reply

by Addie Glickstein on Feb 16, 2018 • No Comments
Varda’s portrait offers a corrective to the oftentimes even more egregiously inadequate representations that preceded it . . . it’s clear that it isn’t so much women that warrant reinventing, but our understanding of womanhood itself.
Motherhood, Friendship, and Selena: An Interview with Nellie Killian
Features / Interviews

Motherhood, Friendship, and Selena: An Interview with Nellie Killian

by Addie Glickstein on Feb 2, 2018 • No Comments
Guest programmed by Nellie Killian, “Tell Me” centers on intimate nonfiction films by and about women—and complicates the question of how, exactly, womanhood is understood and defined.
The Best Movies of 2017
Features / Lists

The Best Movies of 2017

by Double Exposure on Feb 2, 2018 • No Comments
Welcome to our annual year-end poll of the best films of the year, coming to you only one month late! This year’s poll of contributors and friends of the magazine resulted in a landslide victory for Hong Sang-soo’s November release On the Beach At Night Alone, which had a 9-point lead over our number two pick. In...
NYFF 2017: Two Films from Hong Sang-soo
Festivals / Reviews

NYFF 2017: Two Films from Hong Sang-soo

by Etan Weisfogel on Nov 13, 2017 • No Comments
His two works feel like culminations in other ways too, messing with Hong’s usual structures while asserting themselves as two of the most deeply personal and mysterious entries in his filmography
NYFF 2017: Wonder Wheel
Festivals / Reviews

NYFF 2017: Wonder Wheel

by Matthew Rivera on Nov 13, 2017 • No Comments
Through her character, and her sneakily masterful performance, we can navigate the film as an intensely confessional work by its director.
NYFF 2017: Lover for a Day
Festivals / Reviews

NYFF 2017: Lover for a Day

by Crystal Lua on Nov 13, 2017 • No Comments
It’s an incredibly poignant, if rather confused, meditation on the multiple valences of love and fidelity from an intergenerational perspective.
NYFF 2017: Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold
Festivals / Reviews

NYFF 2017: Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold

by Addie Glickstein on Nov 7, 2017 • No Comments
What is striking about Didion as she’s shown throughout the film is not her glamour, but her steely resolve.
A Gentle Creature
Reviews

A Gentle Creature

by Rita Zhang on Nov 7, 2017 • No Comments
Despite the significant changes made to the original story’s plot, the film preserves the written text’s cold and detached tone towards the investigation of a tragedy, maintaining a suspenseful tension throughout.
NYFF 2017: Lady Bird
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NYFF 2017: Lady Bird

by Sam Fentress on Oct 25, 2017 • No Comments
Lady Bird is about this kind of adolescent wandering: the way people, especially young people under lots of social pressure, look for containers in which to construct identities.
NYFF 2017: Let The Sunshine In
Festivals / Reviews

NYFF 2017: Let The Sunshine In

by Rita Zhang on Oct 15, 2017 • No Comments
Bestowed soul and spirit by Juliette Binoche’s minimalist performance, Isabelle encounters a series of invariably disappointing romantic ventures.
The Big Sleep and Howard Hawks's Cinema of Moments
Essays

The Big Sleep and Howard Hawks’s Cinema of Moments

by Matthew Rivera on Sep 27, 2017 • No Comments
Hawks, one of cinema’s most inconspicuous poets, talks about “making scenes” as if it were playing baseball or going fishing. To say he had a gift for making scenes would be an understatement.
Person to Person
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Person to Person

by Addie Glickstein on Sep 27, 2017 • No Comments
By tracking the disparate storylines of New Yorkers across three generations, Defa allows several distinct time periods to exist simultaneously, at once concurrent and continuous.

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