Shadows and Dreams

Close-up, or the sacred and profane

Efrat Dor on the daring, beauty and complications of making art in real time

Apr 16 • Patrick Z. McGavin

A Woman Under the Influence

"I gave everything," says the actress Efrat Dor, about her remarkable boundary-pushing performance of surrender in Nadav Lapid's Yes

Apr 10 • Patrick Z. McGavin

October 2025

Film as a subversive and beautiful art

Editor Amir Etminan talks about the challenges and daring of making Jafar Panahi's superb Palme d'Or winner

Oct 31, 2025 • Patrick Z. McGavin

March 2025

All that heaven allows

The great American independent director Rob Tregenza talks about his art, life and his excellent new film, The Fishing Place

Mar 7, 2025 • Patrick Z. McGavin

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February 2025

The Power and the Damned, or the reckoning

Brady Corbet's third feature builds toward a moment of shocking violence. What does it mean?

Feb 14, 2025 • Patrick Z. McGavin

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Bigger than life

Brady Corbet's The Brutalist Is a Visionary, Divisive Epic—And That's the Point

Feb 10, 2025 • Patrick Z. McGavin

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January 2025

"Dreaming, but awake," or the beautiful and the damned

Some personal thoughts and memories about the work and art of David Lynch (1946-2025)

Jan 23, 2025 • Patrick Z. McGavin

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November 2024

Women on the verge

Some great actresses give heart, depth and shading in filling out the poetic grandeur of Jacques Audiard's new musical crime thriller

Nov 21, 2024 • Patrick Z. McGavin

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Crime and punishment

Ludicrous as storytelling, Clint Eastwood's Juror #2 is rich in themes and ideas

Nov 1, 2024 • Patrick Z. McGavin

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March 2024

Stranger than paradise

A Joycean conversation with the great writer and director Radu Jude

Mar 21, 2024 • Patrick Z. McGavin

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February 2024

'The only way we fail is if we don’t make art'

A Sundance conversation with editor Ron Patane about reframing autobiographical art

Feb 28, 2024 • Patrick Z. McGavin

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Images, or the man in the gray suit

On movie modernism, adaptation, and coming to terms with a great director's work of dread and cultural occupation

Feb 23, 2024 • Patrick Z. McGavin

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