The most shocking Indian film ever?
However the rise of digital technology in the 21st Century, resulting in filmmaking becoming cheaper, has led to a revival of independent Indian cinema in recent...
A New Way to Hear Some Revelatory Charlie Parker Bootlegs
Two years ago, a revelatory suite of Charlie Parker’s recordings, made between 1945 and 1952, was released as a two-CD set, titled “Bird in...
An A.I.-Generated Film Depicts Human Loneliness, in “Thank You for Not Answering”
In the first thirty seconds of the director and artist Paul Trillo’s short film “Thank You for Not Answering,” a woman gazes out...
E. Jean Carroll on Defamatory Trump, and Rob Marshall on “The Little Mermaid”
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Emma Cline’s Vacay-Bummer Novel
In the early pages of Emma Cline’s “The Guest,” Alex, the titular guest, wanders away from a dinner party at a palatial home on...
David Lynch on ‘the beauty in the dark’
From the darkness of Mulholland Drive to the soaring sweep of Twin Peaks, Angelo Badalamenti created the soundscape that accompanies director David Lynch’s vision....
Alice in Wonderland’s hidden messages
It’s perhaps a testament to something else, too: the unsolvable mystery of its author’s deepest self, and the space that creates within the text...
How book banning escalated in the US
“What gives me hope,” Johnson tells BBC Culture, “is that the majority of the country is against book bans. The fact that the bans...
“The Little Mermaid” Has a Stellar Lead Performance and Something of an Inner Life
The trend toward long movies has a commercial aspect and an artistic one, and occasionally, as in the new live-action version of “The Little...