Grief stages: the Canadian auteur discusses making art to process loss, the eroticism of conspiracy theories, and why his ...

Sarah Friedland‘s debut feature Familiar Touch—the Opening Night selection of this year’s New Directors/New Films Festival—is ...

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An example: a brilliant Brazilian director and friend, João Jardim, made a beautiful documentary in 2001 called Window of the Soul that he brought to me for the mix. The first scene is a close-up of a ...

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Morels sprout in the forests of France from late winter through spring. These mushrooms are rare and elusive to foragers; prized by chefs for their rich, earthy flavor; and toxic if eaten raw or ...

It is not hard to imagine a terrible future. Ours is an age of cynical catastrophism. “How much worse could it get?” is a question no one bothers to ask; a quick scan of the disastrous present gives ...

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