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Film Criticism • Video Essays • Podcasts
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An Audiovisual Essay comparing two of America's greatest writers, Walt Whitman & W.E.B. Du Bois

Poker Face DP Steve Yedlin on Creating His Own Imaging Algorithm, Drawing From ’70s Influences, and Carving Out a Visual Niche for Himself

Athena Cinematographer Matias Boucard on the Film’s Dazzling Opening Shot, Working With the Alexa 65, and Romain Gavras’ Urgent Directorial Style

THE HARD WORK OF HOPE
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a review of the film Pure Grit (2021)

The cinematic decisions made by the cast and crew of movies representing sixty years of Columbia’s people, places, and ideas reveal the myth of the University and its role in society.

“The critic shouldn’t need to tear a work apart to demonstrate that he knows how it was put together. The important thing is to convey what is new and beautiful in the work, not how it was made — which is more or less implicit.”