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Video: Four Ways of Looking at Chinese Reality

May 16, 2013

China’s historical transformation over the last 25 years unleashed a new kind of reality, and a new kind of filmmaking to go with it.

Scenes: BRAIN DAMAGE

May 9, 2013

As unapologetic eighties experimentation splits our brains into pieces.

Video: Evidence of an Elliptical Film

April 26, 2013

An early silents ‘mashup’ speaks to the possibilities of cinema’s past and its future.

Scenes: POST MORTEM

April 22, 2013

LarraĆ­n builds a city of the living dead as he carefully considers the effects of the Pinochet regime on the people of Chile.

Scenes: THE NEW YEAR

April 15, 2013

On embracing the beautiful ambiguity of adulthood with one of the most stunningly subtle finales in recent American cinema.

Video: The Gospel Faces of Pier Paolo Pasolini

March 27, 2013 | One Comment

In advance of Easter Sunday, a tribute to the greatest version of the life of Jesus Christ ever filmed.

Video: Between the Lines in THE DAY HE ARRIVES

March 21, 2013

Unassuming surfaces mask cinematic audacity. A video essay reveals a Korean master Hong Sang-soo’s artistry.

Video: How Carl Dreyer Created a ‘Cinematic Uncanny’

March 19, 2013 | 2 Comments

Investigating one of the creepiest films of all time, with insights inspired by one of the world’s leading film scholars.

Video: What Does China’s Greatest Film Sound Like?

March 7, 2013 | One Comment
SPRING IN A SMALL TOWN

One of China’s most popular film bloggers reflects on the distinctly cinematic voices of the Chinese classic SPRING IN A SMALL TOWN.

Scenes: THE STRANGE CASE OF ANGELICA

March 6, 2013

Manoel de Oliveira’s modernist fable engages with an entire spectrum of antiquated, classical and modernist cinematic resources.

Video: Chicago Underground, Unleashed

March 4, 2013
CUFF

Festival director Bryan Wendorf speaks on native formats, archival classics and his embrace of digital.

Video: Jonathan Rosenbaum, Present

February 27, 2013 | 8 Comments

To celebrate a legendary critic’s 70th birthday, two critic-filmmakers visit his home to create this intimate video present. By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky and Kevin B. Lee