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Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters

As ‘Disclosure Day’ arrives in theaters, a guide to the extraterrestrials of Steven Spielberg – the director who turned the unknown into the most human subject in Hollywood.

Words by Nolan Kelly
Josh O'Connor in Disclosure Day by Steven Spielberg (2026).© Niko Tavernise: Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment.
Features - Film

The Divided World of Pawel Pawlikowski

Exile, lost identity, fractured homelands: a guide to the films of a director whose biography has always been his greatest source material.

Words by Nolan Kelly
Sandra Hüller as Erika Mann and Hanns Zischler as Thomas Mann in 'Fatherland.'
Courtesy of Cannes Film Festival.
Features - Film

The Fatherland That Never Was

Paweł Pawlikowski returns to Cannes with 82 minutes of monochrome precision, in a film about Thomas Mann’s return to post-war Germany.

Words by Caitlin Hennessy
Sandra Hüller as Erika Mann and Hanns Zischler as Thomas Mann in 'Fatherland.' Courtesy of Cannes Film Festival.
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At Cannes, Two Tales of Queer Awakening

‘A Woman’s Life,’ by Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet, portrays a mid-life love affair, while Jane Schoenbrun’s ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ gets raw and weird.

Words by Jeremy Olds
Image of Mélanie Thierry and Léa Drucker in Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet’s 'A Woman's Life.' Courtesy of Cannes Film Festival.
Features - Film

Inside the Strange, Romantic Cinema of Paul Thomas Anderson

With 'One Battle After Another' racking up Oscar nominations, take a tour through the director’s most acclaimed films.

Words by Nolan Kelly
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