Life of the mind: many of the films on view through the festival‘s virtual portal ranged from pallid to dismal, but Khalil ...

In Ang Lee’s films—subject of an upcoming retrospective at Asia Society in New York—what seems to be about culture is a condition of the family, and vice versa.

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Look and see: a number of films this in year’s selection—including Atropia, The Stringer, and others—grappled with the ethics ...

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Inside the dream: the cinema of David Lynch, who passed away in mid-January, is almost unique in its hypnotic ability to ...

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“I just came from Deep River, Ontario, and now I’m in this dream place,” says Betty, the absurdly naive and optimistic young actress whose downward trajectory is the emotional and narrative center of ...

Lynch’s career thus far reads like a film student’s fancy: an avant-garde feature made for $20,000; then a modestly budgeted ($5 million), no-star commercial movie, in black and white, that earned ...