Miller’s Crossing is a tribute film, a mafia movie made of noir’s most elegant frames, refashioned in the brothers’ comically bloody hand.

In this extract, taken from the chapter “No EPI, No Nico, No Andy”, Richie Unterberger explores the troubled reception of The Velvet Underground & Nico on its release in 1967

A young woman searches for connection in Chantal Akerman’s melancholy travelogue from 1978.

To mark the reopening of our Bookshop, redesigned by architect and artist Alexander Brodsky, we have launched a new quarterly series of seminal texts in translation. These works have been chosen for their nuance and depth of reflection, illuminating and exposing the fractures of our contemporary world.

Wim Wenders bounced back from an early disaster by crafting one of his finest films — poignant, keenly observant, and unfailingly true.

“I write to find out what I think about something.”

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Mr. & Mrs. Patriot keep losing their hats,While the air is alive with what sounds like screams;Wherever you look there are falling tiles & rotten beams & the coasts—you read—are ri…

What Mulholland Drive does is similar to Lynch-favorite The Wizard of Oz: what came before was a fever dream, but you were there. And you, and you.

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10 Perspectives on Joan Didion

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October has not yet decided what it wants to be; it’s a pendulum swinging between chilly and comfortable.

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Tove Jansson and Tuulikki Pietilä's vinyl records collection is exceptional – a collection for true music lovers.

David Hayden on why Bruno Schulz’s Cinnamon Shops (Sklepy cynamonowe) is the best book of 1934.

An Introduction

Jonathan Rosenbaun

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Although the novelist grappled with the meaning of faith and with the global politics of his time, his true achievement is one of pure sensibility.

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On the centenary of the birth of cinema’s most lovable grump, we recommend 10 of the best films featuring Walter Matthau, an actor always at his finest playing characters hilariously at odds with the ...

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