Cover: BlacKkKlansman director Spike Lee; article by Teo Bugbee an interview with Lee by Nicolas Rapold
Features: Sorry to Bother You by Ina Diane Archer
Bi Gan’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night by Dennis Lim
Letters to Len by Paul Schrader
Isao Takahata by Violet Lucca
Here Come the Drones by Eric Hynes
Ingmar Bergman by Olivier Assayas
Inspired: Alice Rohrwacher on Happy as Lazzaro
Release Me: Ognjen Glavonic’s The Load by Jordan Cronk
Directions: Jia Zhangke by Amy Taubin
Restoration Row: Djibril Diop Mambéty’s Hyenas by Max Nelson
Critics' Choice: Critics rate and comment on new releases
Make It Real: Wang Bing’s Dead Souls by Eric Hynes
Art and Craft: DP José Luis Alcaine by Manu Yáñez Murillo
Finest Hour: George C. Scott in Islands in the Stream by Steven Mears
Off the Page: Jean Cocteau & Georges Franju’s Thomas the Impostor by Philip Kemp
Playing Along: Ryuichi Sakamoto and Love Is the Devil by Daniel Witkin
Festivals: Cannes by Amy Taubin, Kent Jones, and Nicolas Rapold
In Memoriam: Nelson Pereira dos Santos by Violet Lucca
Reviews: Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot by Molly Haskell, Eighth Grade by Madeline Whittle, Blindspotting by Tayler Montague, Madeline’s Madeline by Devika Girish
Short Takes: Support the Girls by April Wolfe, Leave No Trace by Nick Davis, Nico, 1988 by Margaret Barton-Fumo, The Captain by José Teodoro, Good Manners by Nicolas Rapold
Home Movies: The current state of gay streaming by Michael Koresky, Allan Dwan & Douglas Fairbanks’s The Good Bad Man & The Half-Breed by Nick Pinkerton, The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez by Justin Stewart, Cargo by Chloe Lizotte, The Changeling by Nicolas Rapold, Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song by Nick Davis, Vigil by Maitland McDonagh, The Complete Hal Roach/Thelma Todd/Patsy Kelly Comedy Collection by Steven Mears, Wish List: Ruby in Paradise by Laura Kern
Readings: Montage by Mrinal Sen, reviewed by Devika Girish; Bruce Lee: A Life by Matthew Polly, reviewed by R. Emmet Sweeney; Sterling Hayden’s Wars by Lee Mandel, reviewed by Mark Asch
Graphic Detail: Barbara Baranowska by Adrian Curry
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