If cinema is the art of time, Linklater is one of its most thoughtful and engaged directors. Unlike other filmmakers identified as auteurs, Linklater’s distinction is not found on the surface of his films, in a visual style or signature shot, but rather in their DNA, as ongoing conversations with cinema, which is to say, with time itself. A visual essay produced by Sight and Sound.

Two decades on from Cinema of Unease, Tim Wong’s essay film contemplates the prevailing image of a n...

Kogonada's visual essay about the formalistice choices of master filmmaker Stanley Kubrick

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Documentary film about the successful erotic film producer and author Alois Brummer. Documentary fil...

A long-hidden, personal doc about leaving a beloved house by the late, revered Portuguese director M...

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Musing on the nature of memory, Don Hertzfeldt recounts stories about a kiss from The King, a floati...

Three people become connected through mysterious circumstances involving electronic devices which sp...

Filmmakers discuss the legacy of Alfred Hitchcock and the book “Hitchcock/Truffaut” (“Le cinéma selo...

For 'Et les chiens se taisaient' Maldoror adapted a piece of theatre by the poet and politician Aimé...
Belfast-born actor Stephen Rea explores the impact of Brexit and the uncertainty of the future of th...

It has been a lifelong dream of Kyrgyz director Melis Ubukeyev to create an elaborate film version o...

An essay film about Jean-Paul Sartre and the French Existentialists, featuring Roland Barthes' last ...

A short film in which Isabella Rossellini discusses the life and work of her father, Roberto Rossell...
Louis-Ferdinand Céline described the period he spent in Sigmaringen in his delirious and infernal no...

A photograph of an unknown Mapuche great-grandmother is the starting point of this documentary essay...

IM Kwon-taek is a Korean film-maker. He was born in 1934 when his country was under Japanese occupat...

At 6:00 in the morning on the 1st day of January in 2013 80-year-old film-maker IM Kwon-taek started...
The director spent her childhood living apart from her family and knew very little about its history...