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Jeff Nichols‘ Midnight Special will premiere at Berlin Film Festival ahead of a March release, according to Michael Shannon.

Watch a video essay on identity in Ghost in the Shell:

The Toast‘s Lauren Carroll Harris on what David Lynch movies say about sex:

Of all the terrifyingly true things David Lynch has said, this rings the loudest bells for me: “Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way…” He’s dead right. Despite the ubiquity of sexual imagery and objectified women, sex is still one of our biggest taboos, and its representation in mainstream and even much independent film still so unsophisticated, so uniform, so unlike the experience and diversity of the real thing.

Watch a brief video on the history of animation:

Peter Labuza discusses the cerebral and political meaning of Keislowski‘s Blind Chance, now on Criterion:

As the Soviet Union as a whole felt the effects of perestroika in the 1980s, so did its cinema. The greats of the 1960s and 1970s began making amicable works advocating peace, while others fled to the West. But the harsh reality of living under an oppressive regime was still very real, and the opening shot of Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Blind Chance screams it—literally—as the camera drives right into the protagonist’s shrieking mouth.

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