Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In 1970, six years into Brazil’s military dictatorship, Rubens Paiva, a civil engineer and a former left-wing politician, returned to the country after years of self-imposed exile. Not long after setting…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Simplicity can prove as enigmatic as complexity. The new Chinese film “This Woman” (which opens Friday at Metrograph), the first feature by Alan Zhang, offers a straightforward story that’s made intricate…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story For this week’s Infinite Scroll column, Cal Newport is filling in for Kyle Chayka. In 1968, a young Michael Crichton, still a student at Harvard Medical School, sent a manuscript to…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Watch “Rizoo.” When the filmmaker Azadeh Navai was five years old, her mother took her to have her photo taken for an I.D. And, before she knew it, a scarf was…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In the French director Catherine Breillat’s film “Fat Girl,” from 2001, two adolescent sisters go on summer holiday with their parents near the seaside. The older sister, Elena, is thin, beautiful,…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story For the cover of the February 3, 2025, issue, the artist Kadir Nelson captured the emotion he experienced when, walking downtown, he startled a flock of pigeons. “I felt that a…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In an 1818 lecture, on the subject of “Hamlet,” Samuel Taylor Coleridge had this to say: Persons conversant in deeds of cruelty contrive to escape from conscience by connecting something of…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In his memoir, “Room to Dream,” from 2018, David Lynch recalled an idyllic time in his life. He was in his late twenties and had just finished shooting his first feature…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Remember a few years back when boobs were declared over? The data points supporting this claim were tenuous but nonetheless of some note. There was the Pornhub study from 2017 indicating…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In observational documentaries, one important thing tends to be left unspoken: namely, why the films’ subjects let filmmakers embed in their lives. Without knowing what kind of visibility and emotional payoff…
