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Representing the Unrepresentable: On Claude Lanzmann's Recordings

An exhibition at the Jewish Museum Berlin, offers a penetrating glimpse of the legendary documentarian as he begins to unravel the complex layers of the Shoah, and the challenges of capturing the presentness of the past.

by Jonathan Garfinkel / Feb 11, 2026

Severance, My Doppelganger, and Me

The doubles and divided selves who populate the world of Severance are no less fragmented than the ones we inhabit everyday. Carl Wilson unravels the TV show's eeriest truths.

by Carl Wilson / Apr 1, 2025

To Talk Without Speaking, To Love Without Knowing

On the strained, surreal intimacies of Luca Guadagnino’s new adaptation of William S. Burroughs’ Queer.

by Tia Glista / Dec 17, 2024

The Aspirational Realness of Bonjour Tristesse

As with so much of her writing, Durga Chew-Bose’s directorial debut is an exercise in the poetics of close observation and studied nonchalance. But is there anything deeper going on beneath its perfectly impenetrable surface?

by Tatum Dooley / Nov 26, 2024